Britta, how do you define the concept of "entrepreneurial journalism"? Is this journalism with the topic of entrepreneurship? Or is this the concept of journalists which do behave in an entrepreneurial way?

Lutz, good to hear from you! This is quite an interesting point to discuss. I am more interested on the second aspect: journalists behaving in an entrepreneurial way. The discourses on entrepreneurial journalism and entrepreneurship research are more or less disconnected. Often it is defined in several dimensions of self-employment (e.g. Elmore & Massey, 2012), but not in terms of journalists behaving in an entrepreneurial way (e.g. opportunity creation etc.). So I am looking for more colleagues that are interested in doing research on that topic. All the best!

I am interested. But I guess you know that already, Britta!

:-) Thank you! I have one colleague in Sweden and one in Spain that are interested. I was hoping for more via researchgate. All the best!

I am interested too especially coming from a developing country background.

Dear Raheed, thats great! I will wait for a while, maybe some more people are interested. Then i will come back to you with some ideas. Best, Britta

Sounds interesting. Can you keep me posted? 

The proposal may be of interest to me. I will follow with interest further information and discussion on the subject.

Dear Hans-Olov, Dear José, that's great! Let's wait a while for more people. All the best, Britta

Thanks, Britta. Let us keep waiting.

Britta: Please refer to the book "Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach" (Routledge, 2015).

If entrepreneurial journalism means de-commoditizing news to a social good, I will be happy to join your  endeavor.

Dear Shelton, thank you for your reply and interest. Your source might be a meaningful complement to this discourse. Best!

I am also interested in research on entrepreneurial journalism. We did some field work on the subject this spring in Estonia. The preliminary results were promising for further research. So I'll be keeping an eye on how this think tank idea evolves.

Dear Marju, thats great! I've been at Tartu last year during my research visit at Estonia. We were doing some field work as well here in Germany. That is the reason why this idea evolved. All the best!

Hello to all! The proposal is of interest to me. The professional culture and identity of journalists in the emerging landscape is among my main research interests and entrepreneurial journalism sets a whole new territory to explore. I will follow with great interest further information and discussion on the subject.

I work in an area of digital journalism across communication spheres (community, ed, MSM) and use mobile journalism to bridge these spaces. We are having solid success with implementation across all spheres. We are only just seeing some moderate success with sustainability in remote Indigenous communities. This is requiring a degree of social entrepreneurial thinking around advocacy communications imperatives. So this area is of interest. In case it helps, I have a book being published in a month, Mojo-the mobile journalism handbook (Focal Routledge - Aug 15) and a chapter on the implementation of mobile in Indigenous communities  (Indigenous people and Mobile Tech - Routledge Oct 15). The edited book includes some interesting/innovative examples of how mobiles can be used in Indigenous communications. I'm interested in discussing entrepreneurial approaches to more sustainable models of digital journalism within Indigenous communities. Cheers, Ivo

That's amazing! Thank you Ariane, Ivo and Lia for your interest. All the best, Britta

Dear Britta, I'm also interested to know more about this initiative. Thanks.

 Hi Britta,

Congrats for the idea. Please put me on your list. I am currently teaching in Spain on the media-entertainment industry and I have mid.term plans for a case study on the topic. I recently completed a three-month stay at Jönköping's MMTC (Sweden), in order to improve and share knowledge.

Cheers,

Hi Andreu, great! Meeting an "old" JIBS-Colleague here was just a question of time (I was at the MMTC for a stay in 2012). All the best to Spain! B

"Once a jibser, always a jibser", you know that. Don't advertise it too much. JIBS is the best-kept secret in European academia -:). I hope we figure out something interesting to develop through this network.

Cheers,

Andreu

I am interested.

I'm Interested

I am intersted

I am interested. The idea sounds great. 

Definitely interested.  What's our next step?

Dear Edson, Jan, Prashant, Mita & George - thanks for your interest. I will come back to the discussants of this question soon with a few ideas. All the best, Britta

Dear all,

thank you very much for your interest on the issue on entrepreneurial journalism and on a think tank. I thought, that it might be a good idea to bring the different thoughts and perspectives on this issue on an international level together. Therefore, I made a very very short online-survey. The core idea is to generate something like a .xls-document with names, backgrounds and ideas ... of all of you, that I could send to you via eMail. So with your support we will have soon a list of contacts and areas of interest from all the people who are interested in collaborative research and/or collaborative actions on entrepreneurial journalism.

Please find the survey-link here

http://www.unipark.de/uc/BO_Entrepreneurship/2115/