Journalism Innovation

Over the first four months of 2015, we've defined our strategies, calculated our costs, and build out our prototypes. But there's still one major milestone left for Tow-Knight 2015: Demo Week.

For our final startup visit, we visited the Brooklyn headquarters of Vice. We learned that it's never too late to evolve and experiment—even after you've achieved total world domination.

This week, Jeremy put the Tow-Knight Fellows through "Ninja Negotiation Training." Here are a few tips we learned for making our next deal.

Where Tinashe Mushakavanhu is from, people don't play by regular social media rules. But if Tinashe can unlock the power of social media in Zimbabwe, he may open the door to independent news for millions of people.

With only four weeks to go in the semester-long program, it's time to get serious about the numbers. I enlist my project manager dad to help me build a pro forma and predict when I'll finally start to make money.

With all the incredible opportunities in this city, and all the demands on our time, it can be easy to get overwhelmed and lost. This week, I took a walk with TK fellow Leandro Beguoci to get some perspective and inspiration.

This week for episode #8 we're taking you on a magical StoryTour of the High Line, and then inside Google's New York Headquarters; otherwise known as, your average Friday in the Tow-Knight program.

You've got to be a brave businessperson to realize your startup is heading in the wrong direction, and do something about it. This week, we talk about pivoting and what one Tow-Knight fellow learned by altering her course.

You've got no money and no backers, but you still want to build a company. What's an entrepreneur to do? Virtual reality journalist Nonny de la Peña and Tow-Knight Fellow Kim Choe talk about two ideas-- "bootstrapping" and "minimum viable product" — that will help you take your startup to the next level.

Produced and narrated by Kristen Clark, with music by Chad Crouch

This week, we're talking strategy: How knowing what sets your company apart can help you make decisions and keep your startup on track.

Produced and narrated by Kristen Clark, with music by Chad Crouch (soundofpicture.com).

"What's your problem?"

Understanding your audience goes deeper than simply asking, "Do you like my idea?" This week, we talk about how to figure out exactly what it is your audience really needs.

Produced and hosted by Kristen Clark, with music by Chad Crouch (soundofpicture.com).

This week: finding the undiscovered "white space" where your baby business can grow. Produced, edited and narrated by Kristen Clark, with music by Chad Crouch (soundofpicture.com).

This week's 6-minute episode is all about knowing your context as a journalism entrepreneur — where you are, how you got here, who your audience is, and how your work will fit into all of that.

Produced, mixed and edited by Kristen Clark, with music from Chad Crouch (soundofpicture.com)

In this 3-minute debut episode of "Journalism Innovation," we meet a new group of mid-career journalists and students beginning a semester at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. They're studying entrepreneurial journalism — each is developing his/her own startup. In this episode, host Kristen Clark briefly introduces herself and her colleagues from all over the world as they dive into a whole new kind of program in New York City. Produced, edited and narrated by Kristen Clark, with music by Chad Crouch.