Krisztine “Z” Holly, Vice Provost for Innovation and Executive Director of the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, introduced “Seven Myths of Innovation” to newspaper editors at the Knight Leadership Conference this week.
New Media Women Entrepreneurs Competition winners announced
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and the McCormick Foundation have awarded three $10,000 grants for entrepreneurial news ideas - for public storytelling installations, a networking site for Puget Sound’s military community and a news site for and by Latinas - as part of the New Media Women Entrepreneurs initiative.
Mark Cuban Buys Sports
Billionaire Mark Cuban, tired of the opposition he has encountered from NBA management in his role as owner of the Dallas Mavericks and frustrated with opposition from the MLB owners’ association in his attempt to buy the Chicago Cubs, liquidated almost all his personal wealth and holdings and purchased the entirety of sports for an [...]
Online Video Ads Finally Find Their Niche
While online video ads have until now been hampered by a lack of standards and the difficulty of putting ads around user-generated content, PBS MediaShift reports that things are starting to change, as media sites like Hulu build sizable audiences with professional content, the IAB releases a set of standards for video ads, and video [...]
