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1. How do I apply?
Applications for the second cohort of the program are open Jan 5 – Jan 24, 2021.
Newmark J-School’s new online program for Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators helps independent journalists develop newsletters, podcasts, local sites, and other niche news products serving their audiences.
The new 100-day certificate program runs online with a cohort of creative thinkers from around the world building their own microventures. Our goal is to provide a springboard for their ideas. Participants, whether independent or employed at media companies, will learn to identify and build audiences. They will also craft business models by analyzing market needs and revenue opportunities.
The curriculum allows for mostly asynchronous learning so that participants in any timezone — who may also have personal or professional obligations that require schedule flexibility — can proceed at their own pace. The program relies on a variety of online learning methods including workshops, readings, videos, coaching sessions, case studies, projects and engaging live discussions that are recorded for the benefit of those who need to watch them on their own time.
The all-star instructional team features innovators with expertise in journalism, product development, community engagement, marketing, revenue expansion, and sustainability. Participants will also benefit from the experience of a graduate journalism school that created the nation’s first master’s degree and advanced certificate programs in entrepreneurial journalism in 2010, and over the course of a decade, served 130 journalism entrepreneurs from 37 countries.
We need more journalism entrepreneurs. We need more of them to come from and cater to underrepresented communities, and we need them to be able to earn a living through their ventures. We see an opportunity to shape, support, and serve this emerging, diverse group of “armies of one” by helping them with the complex process of carving out a sustainable niche for their product.
Join us in helping reshape the next generation of journalism entrepreneurship.
You can read about our program on Nieman Lab and Poynter and read about Why We Launched the Program on our Medium page.
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Those who successfully complete the program will learn to:
Applications for the second cohort of the program are open Jan 5 – Jan 24, 2021.
MACRO COURSES
Understand market needs and revenue opportunities
Product development
Grow a community and build an audience
Sharpen sustainability and survival skills
Develop a revenue portfolio
Entrepreneurial skills
MICRO COURSES
Newsletters
Podcasts
Events
Membership
Presentation and Design
Platforms and Tools
Next-Gen Reporting
Finding Funding
Premium Sponsor
Facebook Journalism Project
Scholarship Sponsors
Brandon Sugiyama set out to develop motion graphics resources for journalists, news organizations and documentary filmmakers to empower them to create engaging visual storytelling.
Romina Mella is senior investigative reporter and founding member of IDL-Reporteros, the first digital, non-profit media outlet in Peru wholly dedicated to investigative journalism.
Linda Rath-Wiggins is the co-founder and CEO of Vragments, a Berlin-based VR startup that creates VR experiences in collaboration with newsrooms.
They’ll focus on developing newsletters, podcasts, and other niche news products to serve their audiences.
Do you have a question about our entrepreneurial program? If so, please contact us.
Jeremy Caplan
Director of Teaching and Learning, Newmark J-School
jeremy.caplan@journalism.cuny.edu
Twitter: @jeremycaplan
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