4 Tips for Aspiring Media Innovators

Traditionally, journalists have lived for the scoop: Get the story first, and let your competitors read about it on tomorrows front page.

But to be successful at media innovation, journalists and media companies need to focus less on competition and more on collaboration, says media strategist Justin Arenstein.

Arenstein has been sharing this and other advice with entrants in the first-ever African News Innovation Challenge since it launched in May. The contest aims to spur ideas for using tech to improve the way news is collected and disseminated in Africa. More than 500 projects competed in the first round of the contest. Now, 40 finalists are vying for prizes of $12,000 to $1…
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