The New Storytellers: For-profit news startups look to harness latest tech, starting with mobile

In the second of a two-part series looking at new journalism startups, special-to-OJR Bryan Koenig examines for-profit news outlets, with a particular focus on the mobile video service NowThis News.

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The New Storytellers: With journalism startups springing forth, new business models are being tested

In the first of a two-part series looking at new journalism startups, special-to-OJR Bryan Koenig takes a look at the nonprofit, hybrid and cooperative business models driving them.

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Overholser to grads: The journalism you’re helping reinvent is just coming into its own

The USC Annenberg J-school director says that there are still plenty of good jobs available and that the industry itself is transforming for the better, and she even offers a little worldly advice on maintaining work-life balance in a career that is known for demanding much from its practitioners.

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