Why Entrepreneurial Publishing is Catching Fire in Local Digital

By: Tom Grubisich | Street Fight

Traditional journalistic publishing models are collapsing right before our eyes as entrepreneurs — often with no standard journalistic background — are starting highly innovative and financially promising community news websites in many metro markets. In this Q & A, Bennett explains how and why this new model of publishing is catching fire and starting to replace the old models exemplified by the corporate businesses of “legacy” newspapers and broadcasters, and how the theory and practice of entrepreneurial publishing is being integrated into the curriculum of  j-school.