Knight Digital Media Center‘s News Entrepreneur Boot Camp brought together 15 journalists who are planning news news and information start ups. The center provided training and coaching in product development, social media engagement and the business of news.

Here are two blog posts on the center site that reflect on the sessions:

At the Online Journalism Review, Robert Niles, who helped plan the boot camp, says “Journalists must emerge from a culture of failure to survive.”

Michele McLellan, who attended the session and will document the work of the entrepreneurs in the coming year, asks: “Can journalists be entrepreneurs?“