Register for journalism entrepreneurship workshop

Any student journalist with half a brain can see that things in the industry aren’t pretty right now.

Layoffs are turning colleagues into former colleagues, and the lucky ones who get to stick around are finding they have a week or so more free time thanks to furloughs. Bottom line: The business model is broken.

Fear and hand-wringing accomplishes nothing, though. I’d rather do something about it.

If my fellow students and I want to find jobs after graduation, we may just have to create our own opportunties.

To learn how, UNL’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications is offering us a little help.

The J-school is partnering the the Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship to host a one-day workshop in Andersen Hall.

The basics:

• What: Envision Your Own Endeavor: Entrepreneurship in Mass Communications
• When: Friday, April 24 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
• Where: Andersen Hall on the UNL City Campus
• Cost: $15 for students, $25 for others
• Topics include:
  
  • “Own Your Future”
  • “Guts and Glory of Entrepreneurship”
  • “Nuts and Bolts of a Startup”
  • “What the Center for Entrepreneurship Can Do For You.”
• Registration forms are available online. (Turn in your forms soon, too! The registration deadline is Tuesday, April 21.)

One of the college’s newer professors, Carla Kimbrough, has been planning this event, and as a UNL student, I’m so happy to see someone spearheading this effort to bring the entrepreneurial spirit into the J-school.

Register now!

Livestreaming details for Twitter CEO Evan Williams' visit

Evan Williams, Twitter’s CEO, will be speaking at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s journalism college tomorrow. His Q&A will be moderated by professor Rick Alloway, who had the magical ability to keep me engaged in his JOUR 101 lectures at 8:30 every morning back during my freshman year.

So it should be a good time.

Want to watch? Here how:

• Where: NewsNetNebraska.org
• When: 3 p.m. Central (1 p.m. Pacific and 4 p.m. Eastern)
• How to ask a question: We’ll be taking questions live from students in the audience and also via Twitter. Send yours to @UNL_CoJMC, our college’s account.

I’ll be helping with the @UNL_CoJMC account tomorrow, but I’ll also have my account (@emilyingram) open. (Thank you, Twhirl!) So you can expect plenty of updates throughout the day.

Speaking of the rest of the day, Evan is also speaking at the Raikes School of Computer Science and Management, too. I was not involved in the planning of that at all, but here is what I know about the livestream for that talk:

• Where: Raikes.unl.edu
  
• When: 1:30 p.m. Central (11:30 p.m. Pacific and 2:30 p.m. Eastern)

UNL’s press release about Ev’s visit has more information.