Stephen Janis is Baltimore’s Alternative Journalist
By Rachel McAthy, Journalism.co.uk August 11, 2010 He might be shadowing an apartment manager dealing with suspected drug dealers one day and discussing the policing of crime with veteran detectives the next. Everyday, Stephen Janis aims to be the journalist on the ground, covering crime and corruption stories missed by the mainstream. Janis is an [...]
The Revolutionary Anti-Resume for Journalists
By Angela Lussier Special for Displaced Journalists For those journalists who have read the writing on the wall and are looking for ways to get out of traditional newspapers and into Web-based writing, now’s the best time in the history of the Web to do so. Journalists who follow market and business trends know that, [...]
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: The Content Mill Way
By John D. Vincent Special for Displaced Journalists The revelation that Demand Studios is producing content for reputable news sites is disturbing. Like a rancid baklava, it is bad on countless levels. For those of you who don’t know, Demand Studios produces short, rigidly-formatted articles for a variety of sites using a pool of underpaid [...]
Missed the DPJ/Knowledgewebb webinar?
If you didn’t catch Thursday’s Knowledgewebb webinar “10 Steps to a Tech Savvy You,” you will find it through Aug. 20 posted here. All of the notes and links are up there, too, so you can grab those if you didn’t take notes during the webinar. More than 300 of us were online for the [...]
Rooted Austin: Just Follow Your Passion
By Logan Braman Special for Displaced Journalists I’m a journalist, but I don’t consider myself displaced. If anything, I’d say I’m a journalist who has been set free. I, along with three co-founders, just launched the first part of Rooted Austin, a local news portal for Austin, Texas. We think it’s the best time to [...]
CJR: Blazing Trails, Changing Paths
By Curtis Brainard The News Frontier, The Observatory — August 03, 2010 12:48 p.m. When Investigate West, an investigative journalism site, sprung up last summer after the virtual collapse of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, we called its founders—former P-I staffers committed to finding a fresh models for the news business—the “new pioneers of the west.” Now, a [...]
Travelwritten: A Travel Writer’s Guide to Self-Publishing on the Web
Travelwritten is a how-to site and blog for travel writers who want to become writer-publishers on the Web. Author Durant Imboden has been co-owner, publisher and editor of Europe for Visitors for nine years. He was with MSN, About.com, and other online companies from 1995 until 2001. By Durant Imboden, Europe for Visitors The Timeses, [...]
Heroin Addict Finds Hope for a Drug-Free Life After His Prison Sentence
This is a perfect example of great multimedia storytelling, beautifully executed by Djamila Grossman of The Standard-Examiner in Ogden, Utah. Djamila and I attended a multimedia workshop in May at the Knight Digital Media Center (KDMC), University of California-Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. We were among 20 journalists there to boost our digital storytelling skills [...]
« go backWelcome to Our Community
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]