#jimbrady

[bruvu]

If you change your business model you also have to change your editorial model. Changing one and not the other is like walking about with only one of your two legs in your pants.

Jim Brady

[jonoaks]

January 20, 2018. I tried the Chicken and Pineapple Quesadilla at Jim Brady's in Royal Oak. The place uses fresh ingredients and therefore much of the food is on the expensive side. I didn't think the food was worth the prices, but it could be a classy place to go on a date.

[throughcracks]

Love the storm: Advice for journalists

Photo by MattysFlicks.

By Khari Johnson

Even if you didn't read Felix Salmon's downer article or JSK Fellow Mariana Santos' optimistic rebuttal this week, even if you didn't dive into #Adviceforyoungjournalists trending nationwide Wednesday, it was a busy, emotional week in American journalism.

World press freedom is on the decline, a sports reporter was shot outside his home in San Diego and CBS reporter Bob Simon was killed in a car crash. 

This happened.

New tonight: A dark hour for television http://t.co/e3IpTPxwU0 via @politico pic.twitter.com/HnoKMopr4v

And this happened.

David Carr collapsed in the newsroom he loved, doing what he loved, surrounded by those who loved him. RIP pic.twitter.com/gVby5VYsWy

There was also good news in the media: Al Jazeera journalists held by Egyptian authorities were finally let go and, not like these two things are on the same plane, but #wjchat turned five years old.

It's been a tough week, a lot to digest. That's why we share a few uplifting words from innovative journalists today.

Adrian Sanders, cofounder of Beacon Reader, emphasized the need to recognize opportunities that exist today for entrepreneurial journalists now that old monopolies no longer exist.

I think one thing that’s exciting is that the big monoliths of the journalism industry are really suffering which means there’s enormous potential to do really amazing things, even if you’re a small team or just one person.

Through the Cracks did a series of stories Wednesday to unbundle some motivational thoughts shared by media innovators recently at Mercer University's Center for Collaborative Journalism.

Among them:

- 5 Pieces of #AdviceForYoungJournalists from Adrian Sanders

- Follow your passions outside journalism to become a better journalist

- Young journalists tend to be too conservative. That’s a mistake.

- Unpaid internships are OK but NEVER work for free

Jim Brady advice was to love the storm, or at least you have to love the storm to stay in journalism today.

"I think the most exciting thing about things now is that we actually do know where journalism is going to be a year from now – not where it is today," he said.

 You guys want to get into it now, knowing that it’s a bit chaotic, and I think that’s a difference between my generation and the generation getting into it. You know you’re getting into something that’s going to change all the time and you’re still here lining up to do it, which is exciting. And I do think one of the challenges that I’ve run into over the last 20 years being in digital is a lot of people kind of open that door and look out into the storm, and a lot of people just want to slam it shut and say ‘I don’t want to go out there. It’s crazy.’ And I think you guys already know there’s a storm out there and you still want to do it. So I think just keep that open mind and keep that willingness to explore because the technology is changing so fast and business is going to keep changing faster and faster and that’s why I’m in it right now, because I love that storm.