Deadline looms for Knight’s Entrepreneur Boot Camp

By Zachary M. Seward @zseward Feb. 13, 2009, 2:41 p.m.

The Knight Foundation is hosting a sweet, expenses-paid boot camp for aspiring news entrepreneurs from May 16 to 21 in Los Angeles. They’ll be covering business models, soliciting capital, legal issues, and other important topics for anyone who’s hoping to be a part of the future of news. But the deadline to apply is Monday! So take a look at the application, and consider devoting a portion of your Presidents’ Day weekend to filling it out.

POSTED Feb. 13, 2009, 2:41 p.m.

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