NewzBeta

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The Newzbeta Project

At a time of financial distress for the media, the Newzbeta project is dedicated to presenting original thinking and discussion of potential new business models for journalism. Newzbeta seeks out innovation and entrepreneurship in the media as it experiments with new ways to engage citizens and develops strategies to raise revenues to support continued coverage of public affairs. It accomplishes this purpose through original reporting as well as aggregation of the most compelling material available elsewhere.

Newzbeta is produced by students in the Master of Arts program in Business and Economic Reporting at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. BER educates the next generation of business writers through an innovative curriculum of coursework both at the Journalism Institute and at NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. BER students have gone on to writing and editing jobs at the leading business news organizations.

For more information about Newzbeta or BER, please contact us.

Course Instructors/Fall 2009:

  • Jonathan Dahl is the editor in chief of SmartMoney and SmartMoney.com, The Wall Street Journal’s award-winning personal finance magazine. He is a 19-year veteran of The Journal and author of 1,001 Things They Wont’ Tell You, based on the magazine’s “10 Things” column.
  • Darren McDermott is deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online, overseeing the global homepage management team, subscriber-only sections of the site such as Business and Markets, and the development of premium products for the WSJ franchise.

    • Consultants:

  • Stephen D. Solomon is founder and director of NYU’s Business and Economic Reporting Program and associate director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is the author of Ellery’s Protest: How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle Over School Prayer.
  • Adam Penenberg is assistant director of NYU’s Business and Economic Reporting Program and the author of Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today’s Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves.
  • Reginald Chua is editor in chief of The South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Previously, he served as deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal.

    • Designer:

  • Brian Aguilar is an editorial project manager at The Wall Street Journal. He began at The Journal in 2008 as an associate multimedia producer.

    • Student Staff:

  • Chavon Sutton
  • Emily Schmitt
  • Iacob Madalina
  • Joan Magee
  • Jodi Xu
  • Leah Taylor
  • Marie Thibault
  • Lianting Tu
  • Priti Patnaik
  • Ryan Williams
  • Sun Yu

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