Local News Open Matter Phase I: Complete At CUNY: the first of four class photos.To say this year started with a bang for Matter is an understatement. Just two days into the New Year, I learned
Media Thank you, Matter. It’s six o’clock on a Friday morning in June. No, I’m not blissfully catching up on rest ahead of a homework-filled weekend in Chapel Hill. Instead, I
Media 8 Ways Matter Eight is Changing the Future of Media Our eighth cohort is moving onward and upward. We anticipate great things. Matter kicked off 2018 with a new cohort of intelligent, capable entrepreneurs with big visions for the media
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-E7: Jill Koziol — Co-Founder, Motherly Jill Koziol, Co-Founder and CEO of Motherly (and Matter Five alum!), joined us in San Francisco for a conversation with Matter Eight entrepreneurs. Pete Mortensen, Director of Program in San
The Drunken Walk 🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E6: Deepa Subramanian— Co-founder, Wherewithall The Drunken Walk - Deepa Subramanian - 1:10:11Deepa Subramanian started out as a physics major and switched to computer science when she realized how much she loved…radiopublic.
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
Media 🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E1: Rebecca Kaden—Partner, Union Square Ventures We’re back with the first episode of Season Three of The Drunken Walk! Our eighth class of media startups just started their 20–week journey through Matter in San
Entrepreneurship Applying to Matter Nine? Here’s how we evaluate our accelerator investments. Applications are open for Matter Nine. In conjunction with our launch we wanted to demystify the process we use to evaluate companies. At Matter we look at five critical elements
Media Build the media platform of tomorrow. The way we learn about the world is transforming.The next wave of internet platforms is coming into view. Four years from now, over half of us will have an
Gender Equality LedBetter joins Matter Eight! LedBetter’s technical advisor Ipsheeta Furtado and cofounder and CEO Iris KuoIn the fall of 2005, a wise, kind editor introduced me to my now dear friend Camille Ricketts. At
Health Ovee: A tale of doubt, betrayal, and disruption Ovee began with the collection of stories. This is one woman’s story: Day 0: What’s going on down there? So much itching and burning? I’ve extensively Googled
Social Media Pixinote — Deeper Relationships Through Physical Messaging What do Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, WeChat, YouTube, Tumblr and Pinterest all have in common? They don’t exist. Not in real life, anyway. Turn off the screen,
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
Radio Why Every Word On Radio Matters Top highlightIt was before 7 AM and I was fast asleep. I know because the sunlight hadn’t made it through the blinds yet to wake me. I rested peacefully
Hollywood What Scriptd Believes The MissionAt Scriptd, we know that stories have immense power. We can use stories to tell complex redemptive stories that reflect our modern world, or we can use stories to
Advertising Paytime. The way millennials will pay for media. Media content touches all aspects of our lives. It touches us so profoundly that it can literally make or ruin our day. We play music to lift us out of
Television kweliTV Tells Authentic Stories of the Global Black Community When I was young, I wanted to be a storyteller. From the time I could write up until my early teens, I created short stories religiously. I enjoyed developing the storylines, the scenery, the characters and my favorite: the dialogue. I told stories from
Viewability Optimera: So you’re still trying to figure out ad viewability, too? After working at The New York Daily News for a few years as the Director of Ad Technology and Ad Operations, I realized that viewability is one of the most
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 Lindsay and Shereen! Matter’s Associate Producers, Lindsay (left) and Shereen (right) together in NYCHello from the two newest members of the Matter team! We’re Lindsay Abrams and Shereen Adel, the Associate
Media Go all-in this summer. Apply to be our next Google News Lab fellow. I never had a first day of work quite like the early morning last June when I walked into Matter’s San Francisco office, still groggy from my flight across