EJCP Speaker Series

​You are invited to join CUNY's Newmark J+ for our upcoming EJCP Speaker Series! Creators and entrepreneurs will share their experiences of starting their own venture and what they learned throughout their journey. These hour-long sessions will also bring together our Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program (EJCP) cohorts and our Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership cohorts in conversation. Sign up for one session or the full-series!

​Wednesday, March 29 @ 10:00-11:00 a.m. ET: Veken Gueyikian, publisher & co-founder of Hyperallergic — The business niche journalism: Launching and sustaining a niche journalism venture and building a network of partners

​Wednesday, April 12 @ 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET: Josh Spector, founder of For The Interested — Your assumptions are wrong: The truth about how to grow and monetize an independent newsletter

​Wednesday, April 26 @ 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET: Substack Co-Founder Hamish McKenzie — Beyond the newsletter economy: Reflections on an evolving ecosystem

​Wednesday, May 10 @ 10:00-11:00 a. m. ET: Sandeep Ayyappan Rajan, founder of Wiser & former product leader at Patreon — Developing and growing products: Reflections from an entrepreneur and product leader on startup experiences and product work at Dropbox, Patreon and beyond

​Wednesday, May 24 @ 10:00-11:00 a.m. ET: AI Workshop with Nikita Roy, founder and CEO of The NRI Nation and host of Newsroom Robots

​Wednesday, June 7 @ 10:00-11:00 a.m. ET: S. Mitra Kalita, CEO & co-founder of URL Media Holdings — Having an agile mindset in entrepreneurial journalism: How Epicenter has iterated and evolved since its 2020 launch