Investigative Journalism is Alive and Well
I have to turn you guys on to Greg Palast’s reporting on the oil spill. It’s amazing stuff. After you read this piece, click on “home” on his site to see his other work. It gives me reason for hope — that our profession will endure. By Greg Palast I’ve seen this movie before. In [...]
AOL Patch is Hiring
Andrea Stone, Displaced Journalists Community Member and Senior Washington Correspondent for AOL News, has asked me to tell you about these job opportunities. If you apply for one of the openings, please mention that you were referred by Andrea. AOL Patch is looking for regional editors and advertising sales directors in California, New York, Connecticut, [...]
Jeff Israely: Lessons Learned in Year 1 of a Magazine Correspondent’s (Would-Be) Online News Startup
[Jeff Israely, a Time magazine foreign correspondent in Europe, is in the planning stages of a news startup — a "new global news website." He details his experience as a new news entrepreneur at his site, but he'll occasionally be describing the startup process here at the (Neiman Journalism) Lab. —Josh] I realized not long [...]
Alert to Journalists: Deforestation and Pollution, High-Risk Subjects
June 3, 2010 On the eve of World Environment Day (5 June) , Reporters Without Borders is today releasing a report entitled “Deforestation and pollution, high-risk subjects.” Attacks on journalists and bloggers who try to cover any kind of environmental damage are growing steadily all over the world but those who investigate industrial pollution or [...]
Why Journalists Should Learn Computer Programming
By Roland Legrand, June 2, 2010 Yes, journalists should learn how to program. No, not every journalist should learn it right now — just those who want to stay in the industry for another ten years. More seriously, programming skills and knowledge enable us traditional journalists to tell better and more engaging stories. Programming means going [...]
The Future of News: Not So Bleak, Not So Rosy
By Martin Moore (Bio), June 3, 2010 What’s the future of news? I’m tempted to say “not very much” since no one really knows too much about the future of news right now. You know this is true because senior news folk have given up on the doom and gloom stuff and are starting to talk [...]
PR stunt or the New journalism? The Titans of Public Relations Are Going Direct to Viewers and Readers
Public relations, to some the business of puff and fluff, is flexing its media muscles like never before and strong- arming its way into areas once considered the exclusive domains of advertising agencies, broadcasters and publishers. PRs, who once had to go through the prism of journalism to convey their messages to a mass audience, are [...]
Is Print Media Doomed Worldwide or Just in the US?
As I walked in the headquarters of the Jawa Pos—the flagship newspaper of one of South East Asia’s largest print media empires—I was wondering just how screwed my profession is; globally I mean. Is the death of print a world-wide certainty or merely an American reality? After all a lot of “old economy” businesses are thriving [...]
Not Sure What to Do? Sometimes It’s OK to Laugh About Journalism
This is “Multimedia Immersion Rap” — a fantastic video about being multimedia journailsts produced by Evan Vucci and Matt Ford to kick off the NPPA Multimedia Immersion workshop in Syracuse, N.Y., in May. It’s a parody of Jay-Z’s “On To The Next One” and just one of 10 wild and crazy short videos about journalism you’ll [...]
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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.
Displaced Journalists is a community – our community – where we find common ground, where we can begin to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and get on with our lives and livelihoods. [more]