I certainly could use $100,000
I have spent hours and hours– after heading home from my job as a newspaper reporter — dreaming about what I would do if I were to have $1 million or so fall into my lap. Almost all of these daydreams consisted of me starting some kind of online media publication, of which I would be editor and publisher. I’ll keep most of my ideas to myself, just in case that scenario ever comes to fruition.
Of course I was salivating today when I read that lucky students from Jeff Jarvis’s class will get to live out a very similar scenario. They’ve received a $100,000 grant to engage in “entrepreneurial journalism.”
Of course if I were to receive this kind of financial backing, then it would ruin the idealist nature of Web 2.0, the sense that we can pick ourselves up to media stardom by simply starting with a blog.
