Thoughts from the AJE’s entrepreneurial journalism seminar

Rob Campbell reports on the AJE conference on journalism education and entrepreneurship:

Meet Danny, Jack and James, of Little White Lies , Bad Idea , and London-Se1. They are young journalism entrepreneurs, who recently shared their thoughts with journalism lecturers at the January seminar of the AJE . Delegates also heard about Goldsmith College’s East London Lines start-up, and about the way students are working with a hyperlocal news site in Newcastle. And the icing on the cake (more icing later) was a skype chat with Jeff Jarvis speaking from his desk at CUNY.

Full post at this link…

(Hat-tip Paul Lashmar)

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NewsInnovation.com: Jarvis on entrepreneurial journalism

Here’s CUNY journalism professor Jeff Jarvis talking about journalism and entrepreneurship in an ‘On the Media’ podcast. Journalism of the future will be more efficient he says:

• Entrepreneurial journalism on the air

The theme is also being discussed in the UK. Last week journalism educators gathered in London to discuss journalistic enterprise, as noted by investigative journalist and lecturer Paul Lashmar.

• Pre-event background here

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paidContent.org: Cit-J site NowPublic sold to Examiner.com

NowPublic, the international citizen journalism site launched by Canadian entrepreneur Leonard Brody in 2005, is to be sold to Examiner.com – the US network of local, city-based news sites.

Examiner.com is controlled by Clarity Media Group, according to paidContent.org, which also owns the San Fransisco Examiner and Washington DC Examiner.

The deal is reportedly worth $25 million.

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Media Release: RBI sells Travely Publishing Group

Reed Business Information has sold its travel publishing division, which includes Gazetteers.com, Travolution and Travel Weekly, to entrepreneur Clive Jacobs.

Simon Ferguson, former publishing director of the group’s travel portfolio, who left RBI in March, struck the deal and will become chief executive of the newly created TW Group Ltd.

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