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DigitalEd Webinar with PBS Mediashift: Entrepreneurial Journalism
May 6, 2015 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
$39
The Reynolds Center is partnering with PBS Mediashift in a series of DigitalEd webinars.
The first, How to Create and Monetize an Entrepreneurial Venture, will be held May 6, at 1 p.m. EDT. It will be taught by Kathryn McManus, VP at SocialWhirled and faculty associate at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
During this one-hour training, you will learn how to craft an entrepreneurial framework for your own journalism venture and find ways to potentially earn money from it. The course will help you to identify needs and opportunities in your area, develop scalable solutions to those problems and implement them.
You’ll learn how to identify the kinds of challenges within journalism that could lead to an entrepreneurial solution and how to frame your approach, as well as critical next steps in forming your business and finding funding.
About the Instructor:
Kathryn McManus joined SocialWhirled as the vice president of communications and strategy in 2014. She also is a faculty associate at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, teaching its flagship entrepreneurship program. McManus served as an international assignment editor, and an internal consultant for streamlining operations at CNN before launching CNN Japan. She also developed and sold NewsCertified Exchange, which created a communications solution that connected interview-ready thought leaders with journalists from over 250 of the world’s top media outlets.
