Tow Knight Center For Entrepreneurial Journalism

The Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism trains journalists to launch and develop their own startup media projects. We run a four-month intensive program for media professionals from all over the world. In September 2010, the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY established the nation’s most intensive program in entrepreneurial journalism with the creation of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, funded by grants from The Tow Foundation and the Knight Foundation. The Center’s mission is to help create a sustainable future for quality journalism in three ways: • Educating students and mid-career journalists in innovation, entrepreneurship, and business management; • Researching topics relevant to the development of viable economic models for the new digital media; • Funding, developing, and nurturing new journalistic enterprises. With the support of the Center, the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY now offers the first Master of Arts degree in Entrepreneurial Journalism. Candidates for the new degree will take most of the same courses required for the School’s traditional MA in Journalism in their first three semesters and then spend a fourth semester immersed in the School’s intensive Entrepreneurial Journalism Program. Mid-career professionals and other graduate students can also apply to that one-semester program and earn an Advanced Certificate upon successful completion of the course of study. Professor Jeff Jarvis is the Tow-Knight Center’s Director and Jeremy Caplan is its Director of Education.