Archive for September, 2008

News organizations need entrepreneurs

I’ve long argued that the news industry’s current economic crisis is due in large part to a lack of R&D. It’s not in the DNA. For too many decades, the products didn’t change and the profits rolled in. Now, entrepreneurial journalism is working to fill that void. In the recent issue of Inc. magazine, William […]

A great time to be an aspiring journalist?

I was pointed to a recent column in the Philadelphia Weekly written by a Temple journalism professor who argues that there has never been a more inspiring time to be a journalist. It’s an argument I tried to make in Journalism 2.0 and one I still believe. Of course it’s a difficult argument to make […]