J-lab just finished vetting some 227 proposals to fund women-led startups. We learned that the appetite for starting up independent news and information websites seems to be as keen as ever and the ideas for new projects are quite creative.
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Women News Entrepreneurs Get Creative
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jan. 5, 2012 in Blog
The latest crop of women news entrepreneurs who received J-Lab support in June 2011 are showing remarkable ingenuity and initiative in raising revenues, developing partnerships and making presentations.
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What Will 2012 Bring for the Media?
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jan. 4, 2012 in Blog
Here are some of my thoughts on what will happen in the world of journalism this year as well as my wishes for what I think should happen. Overall, I think “news entrepreneurship” will enter the lexicon in major ways. Entrepreneurial ideas will be informed by a new sense of urgency over the impending loss
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The Rise of Indie Local News Sites
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Oct. 4, 2011 in Blog
There is no question that independent local news startups are spreading like wild fire around the country. J-Lab has been updating its database and has about 1,200 listed to date, with more to be uploaded.
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A Gee-Whiz Day for Journalism Innovations
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 8, 2011 in Blog
A good 120 people braved heavy rains to attend yesterday’s Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. They were richly rewarded. They saw new engagement ideas, data libraries, plus open-source and social media tools.
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Internal Compasses Chart Local News Site Ethics
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jul. 19, 2011 in Blog
For all the criticism of the local blogosphere, a funny thing happens when you look at Small-J journalism from the inside out as we did in the new report, “Rules of the Road: Navigating the New Ethics of Local Journalism.”
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The Arc of a Life – in a Graphic Novel
Posted by Jan Schaffer on May. 6, 2011 in Blog
How do you tell the story of 5,000-some inmates who will spend their entire lives in Pennsylvania prisons, with no chance for parole, because they are convicted of murder? Tom Ferrick, founder and senior editor of Metropolis, an independent news startup in Philadelphia, sought an enterprising way.
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Seattle News Network: A Win-Win?
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Apr. 6, 2011 in Blog
With nine Networked Journalism projects started around the county, we wondered if anyone in those communities had even noticed that independent news websites were partnering with a mainstream media organization in town. So 18 months into this experiment, we enlisted The Seattle Times to conduct an online survey to gauge the perceptions of its readers.
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Wake Up: Innovation is Calling
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Mar. 31, 2011 in Blog
The best way to drive innovation is to expand the definition of innovation. But it needs to be more than just new tools. I would like to see us all embrace innovations in journalism conventions, processes, and relationships.
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Rolling up Media Makers into Local News Networks
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Feb. 25, 2011 in Blog
The Seattle Times this week announced it has added five more local news partners to the network it launched in 2009 with J-Lab support. That brings its network of local news and blogger sites to 39.
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