What is a media solopreneur? We've experienced an unreal amount of unrest within the last year. The crisis behind journalism ā both in its sustainability, trust, viability and growth, has only continued to grow. With the COVID-19 pandemic and a hot button election year, we've needed access to good, quality information provided...
People have been going it solo for sometime now, and it's been referenced as a sort of renaissance in thinking. But taking a look at the history of how the web was created, we shouldn't really be all that surprised by what we ended up creating. Web 2.0 and the...
It seems easy enough, start up a Substack, kick off a podcast, or host a few events ā you're well on your way to profitability. Wrong. While often touted as a way to democratize creation or put the tools into creators hands, there's a ton of time, energy, effort and resources that...
Another notification to my inbox? Yes, another notification, and hopefully a notification that brings you joy, reminds you to slow the fuck down, to log off every so often. 2021 thus far, has been a lot. Iām not going to expand on this at the current moment (scroll twitter or read one of the...
How can the creator economy disrupt the newsroom, and what should the newsroom be watching out for? The Viability of the Solopreneur It seems easy enough, start up a Substack, kick off a podcast, or host a few events ā you're well on your way to profitability. Wrong. While often touted and advertised by...
How Web 2.0 paved the way for creators to well, create. The more that I dive into researching the media solopreneur, the more that I realize that we should have saw this coming. Web 2.0, or the evolution to the web towards being a participatory or social web [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
