Entrepreneurs

Got an idea for a journalism start-up? Enter Poynter’s contest to win $10,000 plus coaching

By Reynolds Staff on Oct 07, 2010

The Poynter Institute, with funding from the Ford Foundation, is offering two digital-media entrepreneurs $10,000 each in contracted accounting, legal, research or promotion work, plus coaching and mentoring by Poynter faculty and its Ford Fellows in Entrepreneurial Teaching. The winners must advance Poynter’s ideals of “standing for journalism, serving democracy.” According to an e-mail from Poynter: [...]

New, nonprofit news site offers $2,500 grants to investigate Fla. stories

The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR) – a new, nonprofit news organization — will pay up to $2,500 to finance investigative projects that affect Florida. Deadline to apply is Sept. 30. The center “is particularly interested in funding projects dealing with government corruption, waste and inefficiency; immigration; education; and social justice,” according to its website. “Projects will be [...]

Live chat with personal branding expert Dan Schawbel today

Welcome to our LIVE chat with personal branding expert Dan Schawbel, who has lots of suggestions on how journalists can best build their personal brands. As Schawbel says, branding takes place whether you are taking charge of it or not. Schawbel, author of the book, “Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success,” [...]

SmartCEO magazine expands to Philly, hiring freelancers

SmartCEO monthly magazine, which started in 2001 in Baltimore and expanded to Washington, is adding an edition in Philadelphia next week. Associate Editor Rachel Cieri and Editor Jeanine Clingenpeel answer questions about the publication and the company: Q: Are you hiring any business journalists either full-time or as freelancers for the publication? If so, how should [...]

Business-media company, PR firm invest $1 million in Minn. news aggregator

In what may be every media entrepreneur’s dream, just 11 months after launch, an aggregator of Minnesota news has attracted $1 million from The Dolan Co., which owns weekly business newspapers nationwide, and a Minneapolis public relations firm, Padilla Speer Beardsley. The site is BringMeTheNews.com, which Rick Kupchella founded in September 2009. He is a [...]

How to be an Entrepreneur as a Business Journalist: Self-guided training

The free, weeklong “How to be an Entrepreneur as a Business Journalist” online seminar was originally held Aug. 9-13. This Webinar covers legal and accounting issues, logistical resources, real-world tips and branding techniques. “How to be an Entrepreneur as a Business Journalist” shows journalists how to use their skills outside mainstream media, set up a [...]

Award winner says no compromise of principles in trade pubs

Freelancer Jan Greene won a second-place award from the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) for a story looking at options for small hospitals to survive. The article ran in Trustee magazine, a trade publication targeted at boards of directors for hospitals. The story relays how solutions such as partnerships and mergers worked for other [...]

New Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellows include entrepreneurs, journalists

The just announced 2010-2011 class of Donald W. Reynolds Fellows includes “entrepreneurs, digital game and Smartphone developers, and leaders in civic and print journalism,” according to the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri. The fellows spend an academic year at the institute developing “new ways to gather, process and deliver news, information and advertising.” [...]

Ex-Naples Daily News reporters launch site ‘to put journalists back to work’

Gina Edwards Gina Edwards picked the brains of many an entrepreneur in her 10 years as a business and investigative journalist at the Naples Daily News in Florida. Now, she and another former Daily News reporter have become entrepreneurs themselves “to put journalists back to work.” After three years of development, Edwards and business partner Cathy [...]