Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation

Digital journalists covering local communities find digital skills extremely useful, but understanding how to run a business, including budgeting, revenue generation, social networking and marketing is equally important.

The Knight Digital Media Center designed an intense one-week boot camp where bloggers, journalists and citizens interested in launching a local news and information site can acquire all these skills. The all-expenses-paid program starts by covering the following topics:

• Developing a sustainable business plan.
• Marketing and audience development.
• Content production and management models.
• Legal and tax issues.
• Identifying capitalization sources.
• Developing and implementing

If you are interested in learning more about the News Entrepreneur Bootcamp, when the next program starts and how you can apply you can sign-up at the Knight Digital Media Center.