It is ironic how strikingly similar the issues in today’s media landscape are to what motivated journalists to embark on civic journalism experiments in the 1990’s. So striking, that many civic journalists say that journalists would not have miscalled the 2016 presidential election if they had done basic civic listening
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Tow Report Details Promise of Crowdsourcing
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Nov. 25, 2015 in Articles | MediaShift
CNN recently announced it was ending its longstanding iReport crowdsourcing efforts, opting instead to source stories directly from social media streams. This was a notable marker signaling how news organizations are making different choices about audience growth and engagement.
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When Engagement Really Worked
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jun. 24, 2015 in Articles | Nieman Labs
With last week’s celebration of the tremendous journalism contributions of Ed Fouhy, the award-winning broadcast executive and founder of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, it seemed like a good time to revisit what we already learned about engagement– but may have forgotten.
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Navigating Law for Media Startups
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jun. 23, 2015 in Articles | MediaShift
When I launched J-Lab in 2002, the best piece of advice I received was to have a lawyer draft a Memorandum of Understanding outlining the relationship between my center and its soon-to-be home, the University of Maryland.
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Four Media Startups Win Encore Entrepreneur Funding
Posted by J-Lab on Feb. 5, 2015 in Press Releases
For immediate release Noon, Feb. 5, 2015 Contact: Jan Schaffer jans@j-lab.org Washington, D.C. – Four media startups proposed by entrepreneurs over 50 have been selected to receive $12,000 each in encore media entrepreneur funding, J-Lab announced today. The projects are a single-topic magazine on Medium.com, a Connecticut hyperlocal FM/streamed radio station, daily Internet radio newscasts
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