About Phillip Smith
The Journalism Entrepreneurship Training Company was founded by Phillip Smith while at Stanford on a John S. Knight journalism fellowship. He personally designs and delivers all of the training programs.
Phillip’s professional experience:
- 20-year career as a tech and business entrepreneur
- Actively mentoring reporter-led startups to help them build a path to sustainability
- Two years travelling the globe producing high-impact trainings for aspiring media entrepreneurs
- CTO of an award-winning local online newsroom, where he built successful audience-pay campaigns from the ground up
- Worked with Mozilla to kickstart an innovative tech-meets-journalism fellowship program. Placed fellows in Al Jazeera, BBC, Boston Globe, Guardian, and Zeit Online
- Certified as a continuous innovation coach by Ash Maurya, Author of Running Lean and Scaling Lean, inventor of the Lean Canvas
Phillip’s training and curriculum advisors:
- Mark Briggs, Author of Entrepreneurial Journalism
- Burt Herman, Product Director, Condé Nast
- Anne Koch, Program Director, GIJN
- Julie Makinen, Executive Editor, The Desert Sun
- Pam Maples, Managing DIrector, JSK Fellowships