5 Tips for Winning a Grant from the Challenge Fund for J-Education
When we launched the Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education, the brainchild of a collaborative that includes the Excellence…
Daily Must Reads, January 31, 2014
1. How Digital First Media hopes to transform culture of ‘newspaper factories’ (Sam Kirkland / Poynter) 2. The secret to…
Assignment Remix: Intern-preneurs and Building Bold Thinking
Remix is a new segment of education content on MediaShift, featuring interesting and innovative journalism assignments, courses and curricula. Writers…
Mediatwits #107: Washington Post Goes on Hiring Spree After Loss of Ezra Klein
This week, the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein joined a growing group of big-name journalists leaving traditional news outlets for ones…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, January 30, 2014
1. Amazon to offer Kindle checkout system to physical retailers (Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal) 2. Epic! wants to…
Daily Must Reads, January 30, 2014
1. Holder: New media guidelines in weeks (Hadas Gold / Politico) 2. Facebook announces Paper, a Flipboard-like iOS news app,…
How Non-Profit Media Can Build a Strong Membership Base
Editor’s note: This is the next installment of “Brass Tacks,” an occasional series on NewsBiz focusing on pragmatic advice for…
How Social Media Saved #Hothlanta
Atlanta gets pretty hot in the summer, so people call it "Hotlanta." But this week it's more like Hoth --…
10 Important Tips on Teaching Entrepreneurship
So far, two cohort groups, some 21 people, have gone through my Seminar in Media Entrepreneurship for mid-career professionals. It…
Futures Lab Update #44: Accelerating Media Startups at Matter, and Mobile Innovation from Adobe
Reported by Reuben Stern and Olga Kyle. This week's RJI Futures Lab looks into how the startup accelerator Matter nurtures…