Free Webinar: There Are No Stupid Questions
Displaced Journalists’ partner Knowledgewebb, a premier site for digital media and other helpful training, is giving us all a free webinar for Christmas. It’s Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. EST. From Knowledgewebb.net, Nov. 17, 2010 We’ve all been there. You’re sitting in a meeting or in a conference session, and someone mentions a [...]
News Entrepreneur Boot Camp at USC
The Knight Digital Media Center (in partnership with the USC Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and the Online Journalism Review) is seeking applications for its special News Entrepreneur Boot Camp to be held May 15-20, 2011, in Los Angeles, CA. This intense one-week boot camp plus 6-week online learning program is designed for 20 competitively [...]
Knight News Challenge: Who Wins This Contest?
Editor’s note: If you’re thinking about applying to the 2011 Knight News Challenge, the deadline is Dec. 1. If you’re thinking you don’t have a chance, think again. Nearly half of the 2010 winners were private enterprises (like you would form), up from 15 percent in 2009. This is an earlier story, but it’s a [...]
Welcome 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]