Last Wednesday just over 100 journalists packed into the 92YTribeca to talk with Mashable’s Vadim Lavrusik and Columbia professor Sree Sreenivasan. The duo chatted about how best to navigate the uncertain waters ahead. 

This wasn’t your typical macro-level “how do we save news?” discussion. Instead it focused on more the individual journalist and their careers.  Some takeaways included:

If there was a reoccurring conversation topic at CUNY’s New Business Models for Local News event it was: we are not alone.

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A few months ago, Prof. Mindy McAdams, who teaches online journalism at the University of Florida, wrote a blog post calling for journalists to learn a lesson from museum curators. In the post, she outlined seven rules for successful curation.

Just as things are starting to get interesting in terms of lead generation and audience development, here comes Washington with possible legislation that could curb advances in behavioral targeting (a.k.a. behavioral marketing or behavioral advertising).