Reporters and coders will band together at Hack Jersey this weekend in the service of journalism. Their task: create new apps, media tools and data visualizations. In addition to a tour of The New York Times' R&D Lab or lunch with Jeff Jarvis, the team that creates the best work related to [Full Story…]
Jarvis: Real Estate Can Save Hyperlocal Media Through Sharing
January 19, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Recently at the Real Estate Connect conference in NY, Jeff Jarvis told real estate professionals they should use hyperlocal media to spread their message and become part of the community. The director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism [Full Story…]
Jarvis Writes in New Bookm Why We Need to Be Open on the Web
October 2, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Jeff Jarvis, a professor at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism, has for some time been arguing that people should make publicly shared things on the Web a norm. Jarvis has garnered attention as a blogger, social media pundit and avid Twitter user and for his adamant [Full Story…]
CUNY’s Programs for Journalist Entrepreneurs Unveiled
September 21, 2010 at 8:13 am
More details are out on the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism's effort to educate a new generation of entrepreneurial digital journalists through courses focusing on the business of managing media, the study and creation of new media business models, along [Full Story…]
CUNY Adds Masters Track for Journalist Entrepreneurs
July 26, 2010 at 9:25 am
In light of new journalism models, content farms, and the demise of many print publications, CUNY is launching a new masters degree track to teach journalists how to run a business, something most journalism programs ignore. Under the direction of media evangelist Jeff Jarvis, the program will cover [Full Story…]
Internet Week NY: Privacy is Overrated
June 11, 2010 at 9:22 am
NYConvergence ORIGINALBy: Jim Flood Two popular yet polarizing media figures took the stage at Internet Week yesterday to discuss the pros and cons of privacy. Julia Allison, blogger (though she prefers the term "lifecaster"), founder of nonsociety.com and frequent TV guest, unsuccessfully [Full Story…]
Panelists Discuss Tablet Competition at NYC Event
May 4, 2010 at 10:48 am
At the WeMedia Tabula Rasa tablet computing event last week, panelists imagined a world where the iPad had competition. Fence sitters were the largest contingent at the event, blogger Steve Rosenbaum said in an article on Fast Company.com. These are the people who want to believe that the "iPad [Full Story…]
Popular Science Explains Digital Price at Tabula Rasa NYC
April 30, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Popular Science editor and chief Mark Jannot explained why his magazine costs $4.99 on the iPad but a paper subscription costs only $12 at Tabula Rasa NYC, a day-long creative meeting on tablet computing hosted by WeMedia. Jannot said at the conference that the $4.99 is the same as the [Full Story…]
Hyperlocal Media Discussed at Borrell’s Conference
February 9, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Borrell Associates’ Local Online Advertising Conference began today in New York City with Buzzmachine's Jeff Jarvis discussing revenue opportunities for hyperlocal online media. Jarvis mentioned that sites need to focus beyond selling ads and posting news to offering [Full Story…]
WNYC Focuses on Impact of Social Media for Journalism
November 12, 2009 at 1:00 pm
On WNYC, Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine and Paul Carr of TechCrunch discussed how Twitter and other social media are affecting news reporting of breaking stories. Using the recent Fort Hood tragedy as an example, the two offered their takes on the impact one soldier's Twitter messages had on the [Full Story…]
CUNY Conference on Media Taking Place Today
November 11, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Today, Jeff Jarvis and City University of New York are hosting the “New Business Models For News” conference which covers various topics surrounding new, digital and old media. The site Mediaite is currently livestreaming the event. MediaitePrevious:> Jeff Jarvis [Full Story…]
Forum To Focus on New Tech, Social Media Innovations
October 12, 2009 at 9:10 am
The forum, The Economist's Third Annual Media Convergence Forum, is scheduled to take place from October 20-21, 2009, at The Altman Building, located at 135 West 18 Street, in Manhattan's Flatiron District neighborhood. It will focus on the "surge of new technologies and social [Full Story…]
CUNY Dean Shares Insight on News Profitablility
September 25, 2009 at 11:32 am
Steve Shepard, the founding dean of Graduate School of Journalism at The City University of New York, paired up with media pundit Jeff Jarvis to for a discussion on new business models for news at the Aspen Institute’s Forum on Communication and Society. The discussion examines the [Full Story…]
Why Is ‘The NY Times’ ‘Dabbling’ in Hyperlocal?
September 4, 2009 at 11:59 am
Fast Company's Michael Gluckstadt calls it the "Google Effect, "tak[ing] tiny sources of revenue and roll[ing] them up into big money."Hperlocal Web sites, like The Times' Local and AOL's Patch, focusing on cities, towns, or neighborhoods and being able to deliver more [Full Story…]
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140 Character Conference Taking Place in NYC
Taking place this week in New York is the 140 Characters Conference (#140conf), an event that discusses the effects of the real-time Internet on both business and “we” the people, with a particular focus on Twitter. One of the highlights of this year's conference has been Jeff Jarvis [Full Story…]