A few weeks ago, I was one of the hundred or so journalists lucky enough to be invited to the Block by Block conference, a gathering of what are now being called “community journalists” in Chicago. The event, organized by Michelle McLellan and Jay Rosen was – in my mind – the most significant gathering of entrepreneurial journalists since [...]
By now you’ve probably heard the reports that the City of Philadelphia is charging bloggers $300 to operate a website. The story has been republished in the Washington Post, Mashable and other outlets after first being reported by my old employer, the Philadelphia Citypaper (though local message board Philadelphia Speaks wrote about this before anyone [...]
Ever since I marked “journalism” on my college application I have been a frequent reader of the journalism media – the blogs and columns that cover the issues that surround journalism and the media. In fact, my first “real” job out of college made me one of those people who primarily cover the media. My [...]
At our presentation at BarCamp NewsInnovation this year, Technically Philly stood in front of the room and declared that it was the company’s goal to have one of the three co-founders work on the business full time. As of last week, we can check that one off of our todo list. Starting at the end of [...]
I’ve been busy the past few months. Honest. Brian James Kirk, Christopher Wink and I have been hard at work trying to do our part in making our ideas and best guesses about local media into a reality (with different rates of success, I’ll add). I figured I’d shed a little bit of light about [...]
Sean Blanda is a journalist / entrepreneur living in Philly. Read more