You Could be the Next Fantasy Football

Reading this blog post about entrepreneurial journalism by Jeff Jarvis really got me thinking about the idea of originality today. It's not uncommon to hear the concept that "nothing is original nowadays" but how true does this statement ring? This article was full of new markets that were just waiting to be filled by entrepreneurs such as these young journalism kids.

Professor Mead Loop spoke in my journalism ethics a month ago about the Fantasy Football section of journalism. This is a legitimate (not to mention well-paying) subdivision of sports journalism that did not exist ten years ago. Credible news organizations such as The Washington Post and The New York Times have writers designated to cover this beat of journalism.

Up and coming journalists (like us) should be on the look-out for markets like fantasy football. These unfulfilled bubbles in the market are where opportunities lie in the future of journalism. Who knows? Ten years from now we could be covering one of the hottest beats for the NY times, perhaps a beat that we have no idea even exists today.