The New York State Education Department has given the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism permission to offer the first Master of Arts in Entrepreneurial Journalism beginning in the fall of 2012. The new four-semester degree program will be offered in conjunction with the School’s Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism that was established a year ago [...]

Professor Jeff Jarvis talks with John Paton, (CEO of Journal Register, MediaNews, and Digital First Media) and Justin Smith (president of Atlantic Media), two executives who are building Digital First futures for their print companies. The discussion drills down to the specifics of how they are executing their strategies: covering content, revenue, costs, staffing, and [...]

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism threw a party last night to celebrate the new jewel in its program, the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism. The Center was established last fall with $3 million from The Tow Foundation and $3 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, supplemented by additional foundation grants [...]

“What Stanford and MIT do for technology, we hope we can do for journalism.” That’s what Professor Jeff Jarvis stated recently at a special information session about two exciting new programs in Entrepreneurial Journalism that the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is launching over the next year. The first is a one-semester Advanced Certificate in [...]

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism has been awarded two $3 million grants to help it establish the nation’s most intensive program in entrepreneurial journalism with the creation of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism and the nation’s first Master of Arts degree in Entrepreneurial Journalism.

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism will be offering a new four-semester entrepreneurial journalism track under the direction of Jeff Jarvis, head of the Interactive Journalism Program. Here’s what Dean Stephen B. Shepard had to say about it in his latest Dean’s Corner column: It’s Time to Take the Next Big Step In the four [...]

A delegation from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is in Aspen, CO this week to lead a discussion on sustainable models for gathering and disseminating news. The J-School group, which includes Dean Stephen B. Shepard, Associate Dean Judith Watson, and Associate Professor Jeff Jarvis, head of the interactive media program, is taking a lead [...]