Making sense of the intersection between media, society and technology
It is no surprise that a session on entrepreneurship at the Online News Association conference is packed. Ann Grimes from the Graduate Program in Journalism, Stanford University starts by talking about a new capstone course that combines journalism, business and technology students. Her twentysomething students are interested in doing their own start-ups. Her advice to [...]
Congratulations to Dan Gillmor on his appointment as the director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. From the Arizona State University news release: As a longtime Silicon Valley-based journalist, Gillmor wrote a popular business and technology column for the San Jose Mercury [...]
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