By Jeff Jarvis November 19, 2012 (Re-posted from BuzzMachine.com) Content is that which fills something. Service is that which accomplishes something. Content starts with the desires of creators to make things. Service start with the needs of clients to achieve outcomes. We think of media and news and content businesses. Education, too, runs as a content enterprise. But [...]

Students in the Tow-Knight Center’s Entrepreneurial Journalism Program take classes, develop business plans, practice their pitches, and explore the booming New York City startup scene in an intensive one-semester course of study. (Video by Samantha Stark.)

By Jeff Jarvis October 15, 2012 (Re-posted from BuzzMachine.com) A set of very happy announcements from the CUNY Journalism School and the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism: • First, we are opening the new CUNY Journalism Press . Yes, I said press. On paper. And screen. Working with the innovative OR Books and John Oakes, we are creating a press that will produce [...]

Applications for the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism must be submitted by November 11, 2012, at 11 p.m. ET. The 15-week program will run from January 21, 2013 through May 24, 2013. Classes will be held on Mondays from 9:00am to 5:30pm and on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Three [...]

Noah Rosenberg, a member of the Entrepreneurial Journalism Program class of 2012, has raised nearly $54,000 on Kickstarter to fund Narratively, his multimedia journalism startup. Narratively is an online-only publication focused on in-depth storytelling about the people of New York. The site’s mission is to tell stories that fall outside of the city’s rapid news cycle. “We [...]

The Tow-Knight Center recently awarded $47,000 in seed funding for projects developed by students in the CUNY J-School’s Spring 2012 Entrepreneurial Journalism Program. John Samuel Raja Duraipandy (above, presenting his plan for “How India Lives”) was one of five award winners. Spring 2012 Entrepreneurial Journalism Program Awards   Brianne Garcia ($16,500) for Parceld, an online space where women [...]

After completing the Tow-Knight/CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s Spring 2012 Entrepreneurial Journalism Program, Noah Rosenberg has been busy developing Narratively, his multimedia journalism startup. Noah is currently raising funds for the project via Kickstarter. Here’s his pitch: From Noah Rosenberg: I’d like to very quickly introduce you to a project I’ve been working on for the past two years [...]

The Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is now accepting applications for the 2013 Advanced Certificate Program. We welcome applicants with a passion for innovation, as well as experience in journalism and/or related media, business or technology fields. Interested candidates must submit the 2013 Entrepreneurial Journalism Application . The 15-week program will [...]

One of the challenges facing local and niche site operators as they strive to create sustainable enterprises is how to grow revenue beyond traditional online advertising. Toward that end, we’re presenting a series of “How-To” articles that impart practical approaches to developing other sources of income. The first two pieces, by Annaliese Griffin, editor-in-chief of Brooklyn Based , [...]

Thanks to everyone who expressed interest in AHA! The Ideation Game for Journalism Innovation . A set of cards has been sent to those who provided shipping info. If you haven’t received the mailing yet, it’s en route. (For those outside the U.S., the package may take a little longer to arrive.) The brainstorming exercise was created [...]

Noah Rosenberg , who recently completed the 2012 Entrepreneurial Journalism Program, is firming up plans to launch Narratively: “A digital platform devoted to original, true, and in-depth storytelling about New York, with plans to expand to additional cities. Through writing, photography, documentary video, animation and interactive media, Narratively distills New York—one story at a time.” More on Noah’s [...]

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism honored two men for their accomplishments in the fields of journalism and philanthropy at the fifth annual Awards for Excellence in Journalism gala at TheTimesCenter on May 14. Leonard Tow, a pioneer in the cable television industry, was the first recipient of the Distinguished Service to New York Award. CUNY [...]

CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Dean Stephen B. Shepard describes the changing role of J-Schools in his recent column : “Our new M.A. reflects the role that CUNY and other top journalism schools are playing as our profession is transformed by technological change. Beyond teaching the eternal verities of journalism, we are researching ways to support quality [...]

Nicholas Diakopoulos’ research on the unexplored opportunities in technology and journalism yielded its own unexpected outcome – the development of a structured exercise that helps both journalism students (especially of the entrepreneurial bent) and news organizations imagine new technology-inspired products and services. Diakopoulos developed a prototype of the brainstorming “game” and we conducted some test sessions [...]

By Jeff Jarvis (Re-posted from Buzzmachine.) At CUNY’s Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, we believe technology provides many still-untapped opportunities for news. So we commissioned Dr. Nicholas Diakopoulos to research and map that territory. He came back with a very good and readable paper and with an exercise/game to help media folks find that opportunity. We’re offering that [...]

Former Tow-Knight award winner Jeanne Pinder recently won $14,000 in the McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs fifth annual competition for her ClearHealthCosts.com startup. Ms. Pinder’s ambitious effort aims to bring transparency to health-care costs by helping consumers compare significant variations in local prices for the same medical procedures. The veteran New York Times editor and reporter was one of [...]

Michael Mccutcheon and Brianne Garcia are the first recipients of the J. Douglas Creighton scholarships, funded by John Paton (CEO of Digital First Media ) in memory of his mentor, a Toronto Sun founder who died in January 2004. Mr. Paton, a member of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s Board of Advisers, donated $50,000 to provide scholarships for [...]

The 16 students enrolled in this year’s Entrepreneurial Journalism Program are Adda Birnir, Denise Cheng, Saalim Chowdhury, Brianne Garcia, Stacy-Marie Ishmael, Sylvia Jauregui, Michael Mccutcheon, Ashley Milne-Tyte, Stephen Robert Morse, John Samuel Raja, Brian Reich, Noah Rosenberg, Malik Singleton, Megan Campbell Smith, Hanan Solayman, and Amy Stretten.

(Individual bios here.)

By Jeff Jarvis (Re-posted from buzzmachine.com) One of the most controversial things I have said (you’re welcome for that straight line) is that I insist my entrepreneurial journalism students at CUNY build only for-profit businesses. When I said that at a recent symposium for teachers of entrepreneurial journalism, I thought some of the gasping participants would tar-and-feather [...]

Jenni Avins (’09), who won an award in December 2009 for her Entrepreneurial Journalism class project Closettour (“Finding the WONDER in wondering what to wear.”), continues her mission to search out “value and values in fashion by following our clothing’s narrative threads.” In recent pieces for New York and VICE magazines, Avins explores (and engages in) the basics and business [...]