Huffington Post’s Lerer teaches journalism students to think like VCs
[Editor's note: As newspapers watch their business models crumble, journalism schools are moving fast to restructure their curricula to emphasize technology and new media. Below, Columbia journalism graduate student Chikodi Chima reviews a new seminar with an entrepreneurial bent.]
Cub reporter Kenneth Lerer was sure his days as a journalist were numbered when then-Saturday Night Live star Chevy Chase stopped him in the middle of an interview to ask why he wasn’t taking any notes. Few… Continue Reading
HuffingtonPost, politics blog site, raises $5M more to target elections
HuffingtonPost, the politics site that doesn’t pay its writers a dime, has raised another $5 million in financing to ready itself for the elections, which could be a defining juncture for the site.
The round included all previous investors: Softbank Capital, Greycroft Partners, CEO and co-founder Ken Lerer and Bob Pittman’s Pilot Group, according to PaidContent. USA Today published a profile of the site’s other co-founder, Arianna Huffington, and mentioned the financing. The company has now… Continue Reading