American University to Offer Master’s in News Entrepreneurship
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A new M.A. in entrepreneurial journalism at CUNY
We got some big news at CUNY this week: We are approved to offer what we believe is the first MA in entrepreneurial journalism.
Last spring, we already taught our first class of full-time entrepreneurial journalism students, awarding certificates. But now we also have the ability to award MA degrees to students who complete the...
What John Keats Can Tell Us About Teaching Journalism
Perhaps it's because I've got a Ph.D. in English and a background in print journalism, but when I consider the state of the press today, it brings to mind the poet John Keats' idea of negative capability. In a letter he wrote to...
The NJ News Co-op
Please take a look at — and rate and comment on! — a proposal I helped draft for the Knight News Challenge proposing a co-op to support the emerging local news ecosystem in otherwise-deprived New Jersey.
The idea is that the scattered, independent members of that ecosystem need help to (1) curate and share the best...
J-Schools Shift from Learning Labs to Major Media Players
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CUNY’s Entrepreneurial Journalism program
Here’s video of our information session for the new Entrepreneurial Journalism program at CUNY.Entrepreneurial Journalism Information Session with Jeff Jarvis and Jeremy Caplan from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo.
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Entrepreneurial Journalism curriculum at CUNY
Here are the courses that make up the new Entrepreneurial Journalism curriculum at CUNY. We plan to offer these courses this spring–to our own students and to midcareer journalists. Once approved by the state, we’ll award a certificate and then an MA in entrepreneurial journalism.
This Monday evening the 29th at 6p, we’ll hold an...
The Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism
Today we at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism are announcing the founding and funding of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism.
The Center, which I’ll direct, received $3 million each from the Tow and Knight foundations, in addition to earlier funding from the McCormick, MacArthur, and Carnegie foundations and CUNY....
NYC J-Schools Take Divergent Paths on Training, Hyper-Local
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The birth of TBD?
Jim Brady, daddy of metro/hyperlocal startup TBD.com, sent me pictures Tim Windsor sent him from our summit on new business models for news at CUNY two years ago. In the session on the new newsroom, Jim got up and started sketching the structure and size — little knowing, as he said in testimony before the...
