Interested in media entrepreneurship? Come to JAMLAB next week!

Media and journalism startups are absolutely core to the Hacks/Hackers community. Many of us are (or have been) entrepreneurs and we passionately believe that startups can research and tell stories in innovative ways that old media can't.

Which is why we're hoping to work closely with JAMLAB, a startup accelerator based out of Wits' journalism department, in the future. And strongly recommend our members get to JAMLAB's first major event, which takes place on 2 August at Tshimologong Precinct.

This is not a Hacks/Hackers event, although members will be there and we will be talking about about how our chapter can get involved with JAMLAB and vice versa. DON'T SIGN UP HERE THOUGH: Follow this link (https://medium.com/jamlab/jamlab-meetup-stories-of-media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-46c49db1c8cf).

From the JAMLAB site:

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JAMLAB is hosting a guest from Ryerson University (http://www.ryerson.ca/) in Canada, one of our partners in the journalism and media accelerator we are running at Tshimologong (http://www.tshimologong.joburg/). Asmaa Malik (http://rsj.journalism.ryerson.ca/team/asmaa-malik/) is an associate professor at the Ryerson School of Journalism (http://rsj.journalism.ryerson.ca/), and before that was a journalist at the Toronto Star (https://www.thestar.com/)and deputy managing editor of the Montreal Gazette (http://montrealgazette.com/).

Malik will be participating in a JAMLAB Meetup on media innovation and startups. She will share some case studies of media startups that have grown out of the Digital Media Zone (https://dmz.ryerson.ca/), a tech hub at Ryerson. She will be joined by South African media innovators for a discussion on where to find the ‘white spaces’ for digital media startups and what support hubs, universities and others should be offering to grow and improve media innovation. If you are interested in or working in independent digital media and how to grow it then please join the discussion.