NEW YORK — At 21, Alana Taylor has already seen her career in journalism transformed and perhaps cut short by the technology reshaping the news business.
She arrived at New York University four years ago thinking about a career in magazines. That morphed quickly to blogging, the faster way to get her writing noticed, she thought. But realizing that $15 per post wasn't going to pay rent and grocery bills, she took a job with a tech startup this summer in a market research gig...
Missouri's Reynolds Journalism Institute, a think tank for developing new ways to use technology in reporting, now has a second mission of developing news business models. Journalism students at Missouri are encouraged to work with their peers in the business and computer science departments - shattering the traditional bright-line separation between the editorial and business sides of the trade.
Last semester, for instance, the institute held a competition that challenged students to design their own iPhone applications, giving the top prize to three students with an app for presenting local real estate listings as points on a map, a function meant to replace classified ads.
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