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Four Women-Led News Ideas Awarded $56,000
Posted by J-Lab on Mar. 13, 2013 in Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Four innovative news ideas – to cover the cultural narrative of food, build e-platforms for long-form women writers, expand Latino coverage in New England, and spotlight emerging women musicians –won $14,000 awards to develop their projects in the coming year. The award winners were selected from 205 proposals received in the sixth
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American’s Media Entrepreneurship Program and J-Lab Profiled
Posted by J-Lab on Jan. 21, 2013 in In the News
James Breiner, director of the Global Business Journalism Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, starts off his series on entrepreneurial journalism programs with American University.
J-Lab Fosters Innovation, Media Entrepreneurship
Posted by J-Lab on Jan. 5, 2013 in In the News
J-Lab’s Jan Schaffer talks about J-Lab’s work with journalism innovation and media entrepreneurship in a podcast for It’s All Journalism.
Journalism Schools as Startup Accelerators
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Dec. 19, 2012 in Articles
“The opportunities are wide open for connecting silos of information in communities, amplifying good stories that people want to know about and for leveraging resources so that the sum of the efforts is bigger than the individual contributions.”
Social Media and Journalism’s New Directions
Posted by J-Lab on Sep. 27, 2012 in Speeches
A speech by Jan Schaffer at Howard University for the Social Media Tech Conference 2012.
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Let’s Get Real About Homicide Watch
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 10, 2012 in Blog
Kudos to Homicide Watch for exceeding its Kickstarter goal. I was among those who donated. But I have to confess to a lot of head -scratching over all the rallying cries, berating national foundations for not supporting a good local news site. The fact of the matter is, the founders are leaving the start up
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AU’s New Media Graduate Program Gaining Attention
Posted by J-Lab on Jun. 18, 2012 in In the News
Business News Daily published an article today on American University’s new Masters of Arts in Media Entrepreneurship program.
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Trending: University News Sites
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jun. 6, 2012 in Blog
Quietly, and not so quietly, journalism schools around the country are starting to give their students new news opportunities. More than beefing up course catalogues with multimedia and convergence offerings, the schools are becoming incubators for entrepreneurial news startups – news websites that are populated with student content.
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Mainstream Media and Entrepreneurial News Startups: Bridging the Silos
Posted by J-Lab on May. 24, 2012 in Speeches
A keynote presentation by Jan Schaffer at the BBC Connecting Communities Conference, Salford, U.K.