Owen R. Youngman is a professor and the Knight Chair in Digital Media Strategy at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. In addition to strategy, his courses in the graduate and undergraduate programs focus on innovation, media economics, technology, and the changing cultural and media landscape. Prior to his time at Northwestern he had a 37-year career at the Chicago Tribune that focused on new product development, innovation and interactive media. He created such Web sites as chicagotribune.com and metromix.com as the Tribune’s first director of interactive media.

In this episode Owen brings his thoughts journalism and innovation as it applies to entrepreneurs and their influencers and how we can navigate the precarity of innovation.