J-School Entrepreneur Bootcamp

Keynote Speech by Jeff Jarvis

Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008 • Capital Hilton • Washington, D.C.

What should we teach aspiring journalists these days: Writing and copyediting? Multimedia productions? They need the right mindsets as well as skill sets. Learn how journalism programs around the country are seeding innovative ideas, launching hyperlocal news sites and breeding new media entrepreneurs.

Sponsored by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism.
Supported by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation
and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Run time: 1:01:11

Jeff Jarvis blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor of Daylife, a news startup, writes a new media column for The Guardian and also consults for media companies. Until 2005, Jarvis was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News, TV critic for TV Guide and People, columnist for the San Francisco Examiner, assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune, and reporter for Chicago Today. He says he is at work on a book.