Journalism Meet the teams of Open Matter Berkeley and Open Matter Georgia! Participants in last month’s Open Matter MizzouAfter a brief interlude for a little thing called Matter Demo Days, we’re back next week with the final two installments of
The Drunken Walk 🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E5: Jennifer Brandel— CEO, Hearken For this week’s speaker series, we were lucky to welcome a longtime member of our community back to Matter. Jennifer Brandel, CEO of Hearken and Matter Four entrepreneur, joined
Journalism Meet the teams of Open Matter Mizzou! Open Matter rolls on! Our series of four design thinking and business model innovation bootcamps kicks off in earnest at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism on Monday, and we’
Journalism Announcing the Open Matter NYC Teams Less than two months ago, we had the tremendous privilege to announce Open Matter, a series of four design thinking and business model innovation bootcamps at leading journalism schools offered
Journalism What Open Matter will equip you to do. Top highlightThis spring, we’re launching Open Matter: Local News Bootcamps, in partnership with Google News Lab, News Media Alliance, and 4 Top J. schools. You can read more about
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Media Meet Matter Eight When Matter was founded in 2012, the media industry was struggling in the face of huge changes in revenue models, technology, and audiences. The internet created a completely new playing
Journalism Compass News: How we built an AI editor that makes millennials smarter, quicker. Ciao!Mayank and I met at a pub in Covent Garden, the day after the Brexit vote. We chatted about how our friends had started blocking each other on Facebook
Journalism The Prodigal’s Return Lecturing to our entrepreneurs in Matter SevenTwelve years ago, I left full-time journalism because I realized couldn’t do anything about the challenges I saw all around me. The Internet
Media Meet Matter Seven Top highlightThis year is different.When Matter. launched in 2012, we were inspired by Clay Shirky’s words on the rapidly-changing newspaper market: “now is the time for lots and
Journalism Grafiti on making smarter social media conversations by Farhan Mustafa, Akbar Dawood, Juan Castrence, and Kyle Suess L to R: Juan Castrence; Kyle Suess; Akbar Dawood; Farhan MustafaOur journey started with a real revolution. Farhan Mustafa worked
Journalism Establishing Diverse Media For Our Diverse World Depending on one’s personal experiences, level of exposure to new ideas, and willingness to engage with challenging information, The Establishment’s mission may appear superfluous — or it may instantly
Surveillance Rewire: software against fascism “That one. Austin. Get him!” It was the Spring of 2012. Occupy Wall Street had captured the world’s attention, and months after our eviction from Zuccotti Park, daily marches
Messaging The Path to Purple Top highlightOne summer afternoon in the mailroom of a U.S. Senator I started a Tumblr blog called Purple Politics. I was still in college and had achieved full political-nerd
Media 🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E5: Jessica Lessin— Founder, The Information Our guest on this episode is an incredible example of a journalist turned media entrepreneur: Jessica Lessin, former Wall Street Journal reporter, now at the helm of the in-depth business/
Media 🎧 The Drunken Walk, S1-E4: Melissa Bell — Publisher, Vox Media We’re back with another incredible media entrepreneur whose story of scrappiness and tenacity shows that, with the right mindset, anything is possible. Melissa Bell is one of the co-founders
Media “We ended up launching Vox in 9 weeks.” “I’m so proud of Vox.com,” says Melissa Bell, welling up slightly. “They’re just so talented and they’re doing such incredible work and it’s so different
Media “For some reason it’s kind of a ‘bad thing’ to just write kick ass articles.” Some said it was too expensive. Others said it would never scale. But Jessica Lessin ignored the naysayers and stuck to her convictions. Almost three years ago, the former Wall
Journalism Listen up! Hearken’s got something to say SO MUCH GOOD STUFF that I almost don’t know where to start. Good thing, then, that we’re going to hear all about it from chief awesome lady boss
Journalism Stories as multi-dimensional as our world Discors co-founders, Basil Enan and Akber MalikAkber and I first met in 1993. I was 12, he was 2. There was not an instant connection. After that our lives continued
