What will become the preferred model for news delivery? By now this question feels like an insolvable equation, one that generates so many answers it’s impossible to clearly define a definitive answer. But one fact is clear: This is all part of what is feels like to be on the cusp of a huge [...]
Morningstar.com, the stock and mutual fund research site, has acquired footnoted.org, a site started by business reporter Michelle Leder in 2003 to report news from the footnotes in SEC filings.
Terms were not disclosed, but Leder reports on her site: “While I negotiated mightily for the keys to the Gulfstream, the corporate apartment in Paris, the company [...]
The Particulars
Instructors: Maya Smart
and Joe Grimm
Location: Online
Date: Aug. 9-13
Noon or 4 p.m. EDT
Register for this workshop.
The free, weeklong, How to be an Entrepreneur as a Business Journalist Webinar will teach you how to use your skills to make a living outside mainstream media.
Freelancer Maya Smart and “Ask-the Recruiter” blogger Joe Grimm will teach the five-hour [...]
When the newspaper career ladder Aaron Kremer had been climbing teetered, he launched his own business news site, RichmondBizSense.com, to compete head to head with the paper’s business section in Richmond, Va. His site, founded in 2006, combines the daily business reporting of a local newspaper with the analysis and commentary of a magazine
In this [...]
By David Morrow
No one really expects to be laid off. Although I had suspicions that the start-up magazine I was working for in November 1990 may not make it, when the big drop kick came, I felt like I had been hit in the gut.
Business history buffs will recall the economy was in a recession [...]
Is there life after the newsroom?
We’ve got the stories of five entrepreneurs who say, “Yes!”
As part of a weeklong webinar called ‘How to be an Entrepreneur as a Business Journalist’, Joe Grimm hosted a live chat with five successful business journalists turned entrepreneurs. Grimm, a visiting journalist at Michigan State University’s School of Journalism, asked [...]
Maya Payne Smart’s helpful hints for entrepreneurs
SMALL BUSINESS PUBLICATIONS
Wall Street Journal: Small business marketing page
Inc: News on start-ups, running a business, finance
CNNMoney.com: Small business page
BizJournals.com: Small business center
LEGAL STRUCTURE
Small Business Adminstration: Programs and services to help you start, grow and succeed
Business Name Registration: Doing Business As
EIN: IRS: Employer Identification Number
Taxes: State Tax Guide
INSURANCE
Media Perils [...]
There is a lot of information out there about professional branding – way too much for a slide. This resource is a take-away for you. I have embedded the links in the document. Click on them or copy them into your browser’s window.
– Joe Grimm
BOOKS
High Visibility: Transforming Your Personal and Professional Brand by Irving Rein, [...]
RESOURCE LISTS
Building your professional brand, Joe Grimm.
Maya Payne Smart’s resource list: Small biz guides, publications, legal and insurance resources.
SUCCESS STORIES
Life after the newsroom: 5 entrepreneurial journalists making their way on their own.
Anita Lienert:
Editorial director for Global Auto Systems
Glenn Burkins: Qcitymetro.com editor, publisher
Michelle Leder: Editor, founder of footnoted.org
Aaron Kremer: Founder, editor of Richmond BizSense.com
Julie Walker: Freelance [...]
