City Launches New Effort to Aid Media Sector
(WSJ) — The Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Columbia University and the city plan to open a new lab that will aim to stimulate the local media industry, city officials said Monday.
The NYC Media Lab is the latest of several steps by the Bloomberg administration to boost the city’s traditional and digital media sectors. Earlier, the city launched a program called JumpStart, a training program to assist displaced workers looking for digital-media jobs, and it also founded a co-working space called the Hive at 55 in Lower Manhattan for freelancers working in media and technology.
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