I am frequently asked what traits to successful journo-entrepreneurs share. Having communicated with dozens of them while researching and analyzing their journalism startups in the past few years, I think I have a pretty good sense of what those common traits are and will discuss them in some depth next Thursday during a webinar hosted [...]
Can a good journalist be a good capitalist? It’s a question that was posed miles away but influenced a dynamic discussion about journalism startups at last night’s #Newsnext meetup in Seattle, co-sponsored by ONA and SPJ. On display were GeekWire and Xconomy, two startups I have written about before, which are thriving using different approaches [...]
If you read enough books and blogs and listen to enough of entrepreneurs and investors, you will eventually build a bank of conventional wisdom about startups and building new companies from scratch. There seems to be a set of “rules of thumb” that is recited and repeated and rarely challenged. I like it when conventional [...]
When was the last time you received a personal letter in the mail? I received one recently from a woman I met at the Society of Professional Journalists conference in New Orleans in September and it totally made my day. Becky Dickerson is the editor and publisher of The Community Current in tiny St. John, [...]
I’m happy to announce the release of my third book, Entrepreneurial Journalism. It is a collection of case studies on successful startup news ventures, insights from people who have built their own news businesses from the ground up, and practical guidance on how to get going in turning your own idea into reality. I need [...]
The Society of Professional Journalists and the Radio Television Digital News Association are putting on the Excellence in Journalism conference this week in New Orleans. It is the first time the two venerable journalism organizations have joined forces on an annual conference. I will be taking part in two sessions tomorrow: Ethics for Entrepreneurs, a [...]
Mark Briggs 
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Tags: conferences, ona, rtdna, spj 
No Comments » As she always does, Jan Schaffer has put together another fantastic lineup for the pre-conference workshop at ONA11 (pasted below – hit the link for bios). And I’m honored to be a part of it. I’m also happy that Jane Harrigan, the awesome editor of my new book, will be there, too. After reading about [...]
I put the finishing touches on the manuscript for Entrepreneurial Journalism this week. (The publisher, CQ Press, hopes to make it available in November.) While going through the final proofs, I pulled out a few interesting nuggets and thought I would share them here to give you a taste of what’s in the new book. [...]
Mark Briggs Posted in Entrepreneurial journalism, The next book Tags: entrepreneur, jeff jarvis 2 Comments » Plowing through emails, tweets and RSS feeds last night, I found another great story of entrepreneurial journalism: Planet Princeton founder Krystal Knapp profiled by The News Frontier, an impressive and important project from the Columbia Journalism Review (and a good companion to Nieman Lab’s Encyclo). Knapp, who I had the pleasure of working with at [...]
And we’re back! My apologies for the prolonged delay between posts here but now that I’m finished writing my latest book, I’m ready to resume at least semi-regular blogging. I will be combining excerpts from my upcoming book, Entrepreneurial Journalism (due out in Oct.-Nov.) along with observations and tidbits on interesting news startups. Today’s topic [...]
