{"id":1705,"date":"2009-10-03T17:33:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T21:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conference.journalists.org\/2009conference\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2009-10-03T17:33:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T21:33:20","slug":"six-news-startups-in-60-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ona09.journalists.org\/2009\/10\/03\/six-news-startups-in-60-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Five news startups in 60 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_1824\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1824\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/10\/Dave_Cohn_300x200.jpg\" alt=\"David Cohn was a panelist on the 6 in 60 session. Photo by Nicole Fallek\" title=\"Dave_Cohn_300x200\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1824\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Cohn was a panelist on the 6 in 60 session. Photo by Nicole Fallek<\/p><\/div>By Noah Buhayar and Nicole Fallek<br \/>\nIn the spirit of bringing the startup culture into the news world, five contestants presented their fresh and unique concepts to the audience and a panel of five judges in a real-life pitch-and-crit session. The winning company received a one-on-one consultation with venture capitalists that could help turn dreams into reality.<\/p>\n<p>Sonny Mayugba\u2019s hyperlocal news site, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacramentopress.com\/\">Sacramento Press<\/a>, was the winning contender by the judges&#8217; vote. The audience, in contrast, chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stroome.com\/\">Stroome<\/a>, a concept for browser-based video editing and sharing.<\/p>\n<p>The five competitors were chosen out of a pool of 20 that met the criteria. Projects had to be less then 18 months old and could have received no more than $20,000 in funding to date.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the competitors was given five minutes to pitch an idea. The pitches included Suzanne Yada\u2019s idea for organizing and distributing community calendar events to publications, Stefano Valentino\u2019s idea for mobile crowd sourcing and Josh Wilson\u2019s peer-to-peer news production model,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsdesk.org\/news\/\">Newsdesk.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the session, we put Mayugba to the test, asking him to give us his elevator pitch&#8211;in an elevator:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/6883864\">ElevatorPitch<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2159705\">Online News Association<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Noah Buhayar, an Oakland-based freelance reporter and multimedia producer, is a graduate student at UC Berkeley.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Noah Buhayar and Nicole Fallek<br \/>\nIn the spirit of bringing the startup culture into the news world, five contestants present their fresh and unique concepts in a real-life pitch-and-crit session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"","last_name":"","title":"","organization":"","website":"","twitter":"","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[38,85,95],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaWrx-rv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona09.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona09.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona09.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona09.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona09.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ona09.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona09.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona09.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona09.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}