"J-School
Entrepreneurship Bootcamp"
Keynote Speech by Jeff Jarvis
An ONA pre-convention
workshop
Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008
• Capital
Hilton • Washington, D.C.
What
should we teach aspiring journalists these days: Writing and copyediting?
Multimedia productions? They need the right mindsets as well as skill
sets. Learn how journalism programs around the country are seeding innovative
ideas, launching hyperlocal news sites and breeding new media entrepreneurs.
Sponsored
by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism.
Supported by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation
and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Run time: 1:01:11
Jeff
Jarvis blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He
is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism
program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate
School of Journalism. He is consulting editor of Daylife, a news
startup, writes a new media column for The Guardian and also consults
for media companies. Until 2005, Jarvis was president and creative
director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications.
Prior to that, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment
Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily
News, TV critic for TV Guide and People, columnist for the San Francisco
Examiner, assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune,
and reporter for Chicago Today. He says he is at work on a book.
J-LabTM is
an incubator for innovative, participatory news experiments and
a center of
American University's School of Communication in Washington,
D.C.