Entrepreneurial Journalism
Title | Entrepreneurial Journalism PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Briggs |
Publisher | CQ Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2011-10-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1452242119 |
Entrepreneurial Journalism will inspire you with what's possible and show you the mechanics behind building a business. Working through eight clear and concise stages, you'll explore the secrets of successful news startups (including how they're making money) and learn how to be an upstart yourself, building an innovative and sustainable news business from scratch. Each chapter starts with a real entrepreneur's experience, teasing out how savvy and opportunistic journalists found their way to success. Mark Briggs then helps you size up the market, harness technology, turn your idea into a product or service, explore revenue streams, estimate costs, and launch. "Build Your Business" action items at the end of each chapter get you thinking through each step of your business plan.
Entrepreneurial Journalism
Title | Entrepreneurial Journalism PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Briggs |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2011-10-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1452241422 |
Launch yourself into the new news economy. The digital revolution that provides so many options for news consumers also means massive opportunity for journalists. The trick: see the disruption as an opening you can attack. Entrepreneurial Journalism will inspire you with what′s possible and show you the mechanics behind building a business. Working through eight clear and concise stages, you′ll explore the secrets of successful news startups (including how they′re making money) and learn how to be an upstart yourself, building an innovative and sustainable news business from scratch. Each chapter starts with a real entrepreneur′s experience, teasing out how savvy and opportunistic journalists found their way to success. Mark Briggs then helps you size up the market, harness technology, turn your idea into a product or service, explore revenue streams, estimate costs, and launch. "Build Your Business" action items at the end of each chapter get you thinking through each step of your business plan. Discover how traditional news organizations are evolving and innovating, where the jobs are today and where the new jobs will be tomorrow. Learn from the pioneers, and become one.
Entrepreneurial Journalism: How to Build What's Next for News
Title | Entrepreneurial Journalism: How to Build What's Next for News PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Briggs |
Publisher | CQ Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1608714209 |
Launch yourself into the new news economy. The digital revolution that provides so many options for news consumers also means massive opportunity for journalists. The trick: see the disruption as an opening you can attack. Entrepreneurial Journalism will inspire you with what′s possible and show you the mechanics behind building a business. Working through eight clear and concise stages, you′ll explore the secrets of successful news startups (including how they′re making money) and learn how to be an upstart yourself, building an innovative and sustainable news business from scratch. Each chapter starts with a real entrepreneur′s experience, teasing out how savvy and opportunistic journalists found their way to success. Mark Briggs then helps you size up the market, harness technology, turn your idea into a product or service, explore revenue streams, estimate costs, and launch. "Build Your Business" action items at the end of each chapter get you thinking through each step of your business plan. Discover how traditional news organizations are evolving and innovating, where the jobs are today and where the new jobs will be tomorrow. Learn from the pioneers, and become one.
Journalism Next
Title | Journalism Next PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Briggs |
Publisher | CQ Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2015-07-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1506311032 |
The Third Edition of Journalism Next: A Practical Guide to Digital Reporting and Publishing is the most informed, practical, and succinct guide to digital technology for journalists. Author Mark Briggs’ forward-thinking techniques and accessible style prepares today’s journalists for tomorrow’s media landscape transformations. Readers will learn how to effectively blog, crowdsource, use mobile technology, mine databases, and expertly capture audio and video to report with immediacy, cultivate community, and convey compelling stories. Briggs helps readers quickly improve their digital literacy by presenting the basics and building on them to progress towards more specialized skills within multimedia. Readers will become equipped to better manage online communities and build an online audience. Journalism Next is a quick yet valuable read that provides a detailed roadmap for journalists to reference time and time again.
Entrepreneurial Journalism
Title | Entrepreneurial Journalism PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Marsden |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2017-01-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317278984 |
Entrepreneurial Journalism explains how, in the age of online journalism, digital-savvy media practitioners are building their careers by using low-cost digital technologies to create unique news platforms and cultivate diverse readerships. The book also offers a range of techniques and tips that will help readers achieve the same. Its opening chapters introduce a conceptual understanding of the business behind entrepreneurial journalism. The second half of the book then presents practical guidance on how to work successfully online. Topics include: • advice on launching digital start-ups; • how to use key analytics to track and focus readership; • engaging with mobile journalism by utilising smartphone and app technology; • developing revenue streams that can make digital journalism sustainable; • legal and ethical dilemmas faced in a modern newsroom; • the challenges of producing news for mobile readers. The book features leading figures from the BBC, Google and the Guardian, as well as some of Britain’s best entrepreneurial reporters, who offer advice on thriving in this developing media landscape. Additional support comes from an online resource bank, suggesting a variety of free tools to create online news content. Entrepreneurial Journalism is an invaluable resource for both practising journalists and students of journalism.
Teaching journalism for sustainable development
Title | Teaching journalism for sustainable development PDF eBook |
Author | Banda, Fackson (UNESCO) |
Publisher | UNESCO Publishing |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2015-09-21 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9231001183 |
Journalism in the Data Age
Title | Journalism in the Data Age PDF eBook |
Author | Jingrong Tong |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2022-03-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1529765145 |
This book is your guide to understanding what journalism is and could be in an age of digital technology and datafication. Journalism today is entwined with the digital. Stories can come from crowdsourcing and content farms. They can incorporate data visualisations and virtual reality. Journalists can find themselves working as self-employed digital entrepreneurs or for tech giants like Google and Facebook. This book explores the development of journalism in this era of digital tech, and big and open data. It explores the crucial new developments of online journalism, data journalism, computational journalism and entrepreneurial journalism, and what this means for our understanding of journalism as a profession, and as a part of society. Using a wealth of international case studies, Jingrong Tong explores contemporary issues such as: AI, Automated news, ‘robot reporters’, and algorithmic accountability. Digital business models, from venture capital to tech start-ups to crowd-funding. Audiences and dissemination in and age of platform capitalism Questions of censorship, democracy and state control. Digital challenges to journalistic autonomy and legitimacy. With clear explanations throughout, Journalism in the Data Age introduces you to a range of ideas, debates and key concepts. It is essential reading for all students of journalism. Dr Jingrong Tong is Senior Lecturer in Digital News Cultures at the University of Sheffield.