Comments on: Entrepreneurial lessons http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/ by Jeff Jarvis Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:21:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Change 101 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-374403 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Change 101 Sun, 04 May 2008 18:49:48 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-374403 [...] fall and in new business models for news this fall. We got a grant from McCormick Tribune for my entrepreneurial journalism course. We got one from Knight to help bloggers learn what the needed about media law. We are about to [...] [...] fall and in new business models for news this fall. We got a grant from McCormick Tribune for my entrepreneurial journalism course. We got one from Knight to help bloggers learn what the needed about media law. We are about to [...]

]]> By: The Journalism Iconoclast » Journalism students need to know business http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-372280 The Journalism Iconoclast » Journalism students need to know business Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:00:17 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-372280 [...] need to understand how to start their own ventures and compete on the Web. Jeff Jarvis started an entrepreneurial journalism class at CUNY, and every journalism school should have a course like [...] [...] need to understand how to start their own ventures and compete on the Web. Jeff Jarvis started an entrepreneurial journalism class at CUNY, and every journalism school should have a course like [...]

]]> By: The Journalism Iconoclast » A journalism education worth paying for http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-370219 The Journalism Iconoclast » A journalism education worth paying for Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:10:16 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-370219 [...] succeed today. Frankly, journalism needs more talented journalists to have entrepreneurial skills. Jeff Jarvis over at CUNY begin teaching an Entrepreneurial Journalism class last fall. Students presented ideas for — get this — up to $50,000 in seed money for a [...] [...] succeed today. Frankly, journalism needs more talented journalists to have entrepreneurial skills. Jeff Jarvis over at CUNY begin teaching an Entrepreneurial Journalism class last fall. Students presented ideas for — get this — up to $50,000 in seed money for a [...]

]]> By: MediaChannel.org http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-368014 MediaChannel.org Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:54:21 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-368014 [...] wrote a blog post about the lessons he learned from the first class, and noted that the seed money was only a first [...] [...] wrote a blog post about the lessons he learned from the first class, and noted that the seed money was only a first [...]

]]> By: Panic {RE}_Programming » Blog Archive » Digging Deeper::In Digital Age, Journalism Students Need Business, Entrepreneurial Skills http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-367904 Panic {RE}_Programming » Blog Archive » Digging Deeper::In Digital Age, Journalism Students Need Business, Entrepreneurial Skills Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:24:39 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-367904 [...] wrote a blog post about the lessons he learned from the first class, and noted that the seed money was only a first [...] [...] wrote a blog post about the lessons he learned from the first class, and noted that the seed money was only a first [...]

]]> By: Jeff Jarvis http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-365367 Jeff Jarvis Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:37:25 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-365367 Shafqat, That's exactly what we'll try to figure out next. Some or perhaps all these students will need to get jobs to earn money and because the opportunities may present themselves now. That's the first step: deciding whether to do this. Then the jury and I will continue to give advice and the seed money will get them just to the next step -- in most cases, proving the concept -- so they can seek more money elsewhere. I'm trying to figure out now what an incubator would entail. Eager to hear suggestions. Shafqat,
That’s exactly what we’ll try to figure out next. Some or perhaps all these students will need to get jobs to earn money and because the opportunities may present themselves now. That’s the first step: deciding whether to do this. Then the jury and I will continue to give advice and the seed money will get them just to the next step — in most cases, proving the concept — so they can seek more money elsewhere. I’m trying to figure out now what an incubator would entail. Eager to hear suggestions.

]]> By: Shafqat http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-365366 Shafqat Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:21:43 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-365366 Jeff - what happens now? The class is over, but you mentioned that a lot of these ideas need advice, feedback, and possibly an incubator to help them grow. Do you have the time to continue to help these guys out? There are a few very promising ideas that might die out without support. More generically, would be interested in hearing your thoughts about advisers for startups and how to go about finding them. Jeff - what happens now? The class is over, but you mentioned that a lot of these ideas need advice, feedback, and possibly an incubator to help them grow. Do you have the time to continue to help these guys out? There are a few very promising ideas that might die out without support. More generically, would be interested in hearing your thoughts about advisers for startups and how to go about finding them.

]]> By: Make Them Accountable / Media http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-365008 Make Them Accountable / Media Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:15:11 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-365008 [...] Entrepreneurial lessons (by Jeff Jarvis) I’m trying to catalogue some of the lessons I learned in my entrepreneurial journalism course at CUNY… To my amazement, every single one of the students said they wanted to start these businesses; I was hoping one or two might be so ambitious and independent. Now, of course, real job offers with real salaries will properly distract some of them… It is a lesson to the industry: Give this kind of talent an opportunity to invent and innovate and they will. But we need an incubator. These businesses need ongoing advice and nurturing, most do. Progressive media need to learn the same lesson.  It’s a pretty closed environment.  You almost have to be a white male graduate of an Ivy League college living in D.C., New York, or San Francisco to get any traction. [...] [...] Entrepreneurial lessons (by Jeff Jarvis) I’m trying to catalogue some of the lessons I learned in my entrepreneurial journalism course at CUNY… To my amazement, every single one of the students said they wanted to start these businesses; I was hoping one or two might be so ambitious and independent. Now, of course, real job offers with real salaries will properly distract some of them… It is a lesson to the industry: Give this kind of talent an opportunity to invent and innovate and they will. But we need an incubator. These businesses need ongoing advice and nurturing, most do. Progressive media need to learn the same lesson.  It’s a pretty closed environment.  You almost have to be a white male graduate of an Ivy League college living in D.C., New York, or San Francisco to get any traction. [...]

]]> By: Colin Kerr http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-365003 Colin Kerr Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:36:38 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-365003 Magazine Awards Announced ........... Awards of excellence were conferred on magazine publishers, editors and designers at a gala ceremony in Dublin last night (Thursday 6 December). A total of 12 awards were made spanning the wide range of skills involved in magazine production. The premier award went to Norah Casey of Harmonia which publishes Irish Tatler, Woman’s Way, U Magazine, Diarmuid Gavin’s Garden Designs, Food&Wine and Eat Out, as well as a range of contract titles including Cara, K Club, Dundrum and Superquinn. The top consumer magazine award went to Image and the consumer specialist magazine award went to Easy Food. The full list of award winners includes: Publisher of the Year - Norah Casey - Harmonia Consumer Magazine of the Year - Image - Image Publications Consumer Specialist Magazine of the Year - Easy Food - Zahra Publishing Business to Business Magazine of the Year - IMJ - Mount Media Business to Business Specialist Magazine of the Year - Euro Times - Euro Times Editor of the Year - Susan Vasquez - Kiss Designer of the Year (Joint Award)- Dillon St Paul - Kiss; - Jane Matthews - Image Magazine Student Writer Award – Michael Donohue from DIT Aungier Street for an article he wrote for Hot Press. Annual of the Year - HighBall - Ashville Media Group Customer Magazine of the Year - The Market – Enterprise Ireland Website of the Year - hotpress.com – Hot Press The PPAI Awards presentation has become a major media event attended by the entire Irish magazine industry and are a real badge of honour for the winners. The Awards are open to all Irish magazine publishers, not just PPAI members, and as such they represent the accolade of the entire industry. The judging panel is independent of the PPAI and made up of media experts. Mary Finan, Chairman RTE Authority, chaired the judging panel. Other members of the judging panel were: Elaine Geraghty, Chief Executive, Newstalk 106-108 Sean McCrave, Chief Executive, Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) Roisin Ingle – Columnist, The Irish Times Louis Humphrey, Creative Director, Anderson Spratt Ian Keogh, Managing Director, Newspread Vincent Jennings, Chief Executive, Convenience Store and Newsagents Association (CSNA) The sponsors were Boylan Print Group, Sooner than Later, An Post, St Ives Group, Combined Media, Newspread, W&G Baird, MyMagonline, Typeform, Graham & Heslip, Microprint and ABC Ireland. Pictures are available from Kim Haughton at kimpho@eircom.net Further details are available at www.ppa.ie or from Grace Aungier, Chief Executive, Periodical Publishers’ Association of Ireland (PPAI) tel: 01 667 55 79 Finalists in each category were: Consumer Magazine of the Year Kiss – VIP Magazine Group U Magazine - Harmonia Consumer Specialist Magazine of the Year Confetti – Dyflin Publications PC Live! - Mediateam Business to Business Magazine of the Year Architecture Ireland – Nova Publishing Perspective – Ulster Journals Business to Business Specialist Magazine of the Year Law Society Gazette – Law Society of Ireland Creative Head Ireland – Creative Head Ireland Customer Magazine of the Year K Club – Harmonia Superquinn - Harmonia Website of the Year cbg.ie – Page 7 Media accountancyireland.ie - ICAI Ends Magazine Awards Announced
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Awards of excellence were conferred on magazine publishers, editors and designers at a gala ceremony in Dublin last night (Thursday 6 December). A total of 12 awards were made spanning the wide range of skills involved in magazine production.
The premier award went to Norah Casey of Harmonia which publishes Irish Tatler, Woman’s Way, U Magazine, Diarmuid Gavin’s Garden Designs, Food&Wine and Eat Out, as well as a range of contract titles including Cara, K Club, Dundrum and Superquinn.
The top consumer magazine award went to Image and the consumer specialist magazine award went to Easy Food. The full list of award winners includes:
Publisher of the Year - Norah Casey - Harmonia
Consumer Magazine of the Year - Image - Image Publications
Consumer Specialist Magazine of the Year - Easy Food - Zahra Publishing
Business to Business Magazine of the Year - IMJ - Mount Media
Business to Business Specialist Magazine of the Year - Euro Times - Euro Times
Editor of the Year - Susan Vasquez - Kiss
Designer of the Year (Joint Award)- Dillon St Paul - Kiss;
- Jane Matthews - Image
Magazine Student Writer Award – Michael Donohue from DIT Aungier Street for an article he wrote for Hot Press.
Annual of the Year - HighBall - Ashville Media Group
Customer Magazine of the Year - The Market – Enterprise Ireland
Website of the Year - hotpress.com – Hot Press
The PPAI Awards presentation has become a major media event attended by the entire Irish magazine industry and are a real badge of honour for the winners. The Awards are open to all

Irish magazine publishers, not just PPAI members, and as such they represent the accolade of the entire industry. The judging panel is independent of the PPAI and made up of media experts.
Mary Finan, Chairman RTE Authority, chaired the judging panel.
Other members of the judging panel were:
Elaine Geraghty, Chief Executive, Newstalk 106-108
Sean McCrave, Chief Executive, Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI)
Roisin Ingle – Columnist, The Irish Times
Louis Humphrey, Creative Director, Anderson Spratt
Ian Keogh, Managing Director, Newspread
Vincent Jennings, Chief Executive, Convenience Store and Newsagents Association (CSNA)

The sponsors were Boylan Print Group, Sooner than Later, An Post, St Ives Group, Combined Media, Newspread, W&G Baird, MyMagonline, Typeform, Graham & Heslip, Microprint and ABC Ireland.
Pictures are available from Kim Haughton at kimpho@eircom.net
Further details are available at http://www.ppa.ie or from Grace Aungier, Chief Executive, Periodical Publishers’ Association of Ireland (PPAI) tel: 01 667 55 79

Finalists in each category were:
Consumer Magazine of the Year
Kiss – VIP Magazine Group
U Magazine - Harmonia

Consumer Specialist Magazine of the Year
Confetti – Dyflin Publications
PC Live! - Mediateam

Business to Business Magazine of the Year
Architecture Ireland – Nova Publishing
Perspective – Ulster Journals

Business to Business Specialist Magazine of the Year
Law Society Gazette – Law Society of Ireland
Creative Head Ireland – Creative Head Ireland

Customer Magazine of the Year
K Club – Harmonia
Superquinn - Harmonia

Website of the Year
cbg.ie – Page 7 Media
accountancyireland.ie - ICAI
Ends

]]> By: Walter Brasch http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-364982 Walter Brasch Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:05:44 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-364982 We ALL want to run our own business; we may be able to make money doing it. But, the base of journalism is still good old-fashioned writing and reporting, with a lot of sweat thrown in. Too often, the mainstream media forget this -- and, too often, so do start-up web companies that think they can change the world one opinion at a time. But, the liberals which understood thye media somewhat in the '60s now only THINK they do. The liberals are so far behind the conservatives that I wonder how that happened--and why. Interestingly, the mainstream media (which most assuredly aren't liberal) don't want us underground journalists to infiltrate their ranks (even if we had at many times in the past). We ALL want to run our own business; we may be able to make money doing it. But, the base of journalism is still good old-fashioned writing and reporting, with a lot of sweat thrown in. Too often, the mainstream media forget this — and, too often, so do start-up web companies that think they can change the world one opinion at a time. But, the liberals which understood thye media somewhat in the ’60s now only THINK they do. The liberals are so far behind the conservatives that I wonder how that happened–and why.

Interestingly, the mainstream media (which most assuredly aren’t liberal) don’t want us underground journalists to infiltrate their ranks (even if we had at many times in the past).

]]> By: Elizabeth Osder http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-364963 Elizabeth Osder Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:13:15 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-364963 Jeff, I've been teaching a similar class for so many years, kind of a journalism product developmen course with business plan and prototype but never thought of my juried final presentations as a chance to award seed money -- that's cool...how about a national juried competition to get similar courses going across the country? Anyway, if I find another classroom next year, i would love to discuss. your fan, eo Jeff, I’ve been teaching a similar class for so many years, kind of a journalism product developmen course with business plan and prototype but never thought of my juried final presentations as a chance to award seed money — that’s cool…how about a national juried competition to get similar courses going across the country? Anyway, if I find another classroom next year, i would love to discuss. your fan, eo

]]> By: Billy http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-364960 Billy Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:00:04 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-364960 CPM, ROI, TQM. Those who've lived long enough through the media cycles realize: different acronym, same dilemma. Nice try at reinventing the blacksmith shop, Jarvis. Point is, rarely has journalism moved the culture. [Save that war thing. Thanks, Judy!] Now the culture has gotten wise and ain't gonna pay for wisecracking muckrakers. CPM, ROI, TQM. Those who’ve lived long enough through the media cycles realize: different acronym, same dilemma.

Nice try at reinventing the blacksmith shop, Jarvis. Point is, rarely has journalism moved the culture. [Save that war thing. Thanks, Judy!] Now the culture has gotten wise and ain’t gonna pay for wisecracking muckrakers.

]]> By: Dorian Benkoil http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-364951 Dorian Benkoil Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:05:48 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-364951 Agree with Jonny. Love it. Disheartens me to read that most journalists don't know what "CPM" and the like is. Heartens me to know that the ones in your class now will now. That's a source of power for them. Agree with Jonny. Love it.

Disheartens me to read that most journalists don’t know what “CPM” and the like is. Heartens me to know that the ones in your class now will now. That’s a source of power for them.

]]> By: jonny goldstein http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-364916 jonny goldstein Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:03:57 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-364916 Sounds like the right class at the right time. Nice work Jeff! Sounds like the right class at the right time. Nice work Jeff!

]]> By: robertdfeinman http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-364911 robertdfeinman Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:17:27 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/10/entrepreneurial-lessons/#comment-364911 What I think your class illustrates is the need for a new term, using "journalism" limits thinking because of all the historical connotations of the term. "Media" seems overworked as well, as in "interactive media" and the like. Perhaps asking your students what it is they think they are doing might get some interesting ideas. Blogosphere sort of evolved from the bottom up and seems to have become a fairly well-understood term. I think the right terminology is especially important when trying to explain a new concept, otherwise people try to squeeze it into an existing pigeonhole. What I think your class illustrates is the need for a new term, using “journalism” limits thinking because of all the historical connotations of the term.

“Media” seems overworked as well, as in “interactive media” and the like. Perhaps asking your students what it is they think they are doing might get some interesting ideas. Blogosphere sort of evolved from the bottom up and seems to have become a fairly well-understood term.

I think the right terminology is especially important when trying to explain a new concept, otherwise people try to squeeze it into an existing pigeonhole.

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