Scripps Fellows Program to Strengthen Local News Coverage on Multiple Platforms
CINCINNATI – Leveraging its strength and reputation in an effort to define the future of journalism, The E.W. Scripps Company is shifting resources within its newspaper division to add multimedia journalists, editors and web developers in the company’s 13 newspaper markets. Through the new Scripps Fellows program, as many as 40 people will be hired [...]
Multimedia Stories Create a Sensory Experience
Editor’s note: John Dennison, a member of our Displaced Journalists community, is a multimedia storyteller. This is an example of how he tells rich, textured and compelling stories, using the latest and greatest technology to capture sound, action, imagery and human emotion — all the sensory elements that make the viewer a part of the [...]
Digital Media Training at KDMC-Berkeley
The Knight Digital Media Center, which is associated the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has opened the application process for its next round of free week-long digital media workshops for working and independent journalists. The program teaches multimedia storytelling, including how to capture and edit video, photos and audio. There is a workshop on Web [...]
The Value of Real Journalism
Editor’s Note: Across the American political spectrum, there has grown a deep disdain for journalism, the serious business of digging out facts and presenting the information in an honest context. Too often, partisans of all persuasions simply want their own agit-prop. Obviously, what has passed for U.S. journalism in recent decades deserves a share of [...]
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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]