Key: Personal Branding and Social Networking

By Susan Older Founder, Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists Febrauary 22. 2010 Job appli­ca­tions are so five min­utes ago. Ask any­one who has spent day after day sub­mit­ting cover let­ters and resumes online to no avail. On the rare occa­sion that you get a call­back, it gen­er­ally leads nowhere. Why? Because they’ve never heard of you. You haven’t mar­keted your­self. If […]

“15 Minutes of Fame” Isn’t Worth Compromise

By Gev­eryl Robin­son Feb­ru­ary 15, 2010 In 2007, one of my stu­dents, John Wel­don, was mur­dered. I was an Eng­lish instruc­tor at Savan­nah Tech­ni­cal Col­lege, and John, who grew up in one of the worst hous­ing projects in Savan­nah, was the first per­son in his fam­ily to attend col­lege. The last time I saw John, I […]

Knight Workshop/Fellowship for Journalists in Transition

By Susan Older Founder, Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists Feb­ru­ary 10, 2010 The Knight Dig­i­tal Media Cen­ter, which is asso­ci­ated with the UC Berke­ley Grad­u­ate School of Jour­nal­ism, will offer three free work­shops this spring – one for  inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ists, and two for mul­ti­me­dia jour­nal­ists. These are fel­low­ships and you must be accepted to attend. Capac­ity is lim­ited, but it’s certainly […]

Sad About My Layoff? Not Me, I’m “The Photo Garden Bee”

Like every­one, I’ve been hold­ing my breath each time rumors regard­ing “down­siz­ing,” “right-sizing,” “cut­backs” or “sac­ri­fices to the stock mar­ket gods” started swirling around the news­room. Unfor­tu­nately, more often than not, most of the rumors have been fol­lowed by real lay­offs of really tal­ented friends and co-workers. This past Decem­ber 1st was no dif­fer­ent. The […]

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Stop the Exploitation of Journalists

The author has shared the lede and link to Monday’s (Feb. 1) post on his blog: “Reflec­tions of a New­sosaur: Mus­ings (and occa­sional urgent warn­ings) of a vet­eran media exec­u­tive who fears our news-gathering com­pa­nies are stum­bling to extinc­tion.” By Alan D. Mut­ter It’s time for jour­nal­ists to stop par­tic­i­pat­ing in their own exploita­tion by work­ing for […]

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        Is there life – or work – after news­pa­pers? A lot of us are in the process of find­ing out. Because it’s gen­er­ally a some­what lonely endeavor, it struck me, in Jan­u­ary 2010, that it might be com­fort­ing – and pos­si­bly very pro­duc­tive – to go through it together.

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