Reflections of a Newsosaur: Why the Daily will succeed – or not
By Alan D. Mutter Reflections of a Newsosaur Monday, Jan. 31 2011 The Daily, which is set to launch this week, could be a captivating hit, a spectacular miss or something in between. But one thing is sure: Rupert Murdoch, the last swashbuckling publisher of our time, will shake up the media world on Wednesday [...]
KDMC extends application deadline for workshop: Web Publishing for Independent Journalists
The Knight Digital Media Center (KDMC) at UC Berkeley has extended the deadline for the Web Publishing for Independent Journalists Workshop to Tuesday, Feb.1 at 11:59 p.m. PST. The workshop will be held March 20-25, 2011 at the UC Berkeley Graduate School for Journalism. The career path for many of today’s journalists is merging with [...]
Seeking foundation support for your news start up? Three tips for news entrepreneurs
By Michele McLellan, News Leadership 3.0 Knight Digital Media Center January 25, 2011 As traditional news organizations do less, local foundations are becoming more willing to make grants in support of news and information projects. Still, their resources are not limitless and I often run into journalist entrepreneurs who have highly unrealistic ideas about what [...]
KDMC workshop: Web publishing for independent journalists
The Knight Digital Media Center UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism The career path for many of today’s journalists is merging with entrepreneurship. Journalists who once covered topical, feature and investigative news for established newspapers are becoming independent publishers of specialty blogs and hyperlocal community news sites. These sites fulfill an important role in the emerging [...]
“Fear and Loathing” in the American Workplace
Author’s note: I wrote this a little more than a year ago, but it just occurred to me that I never shared it with the Displaced Journalists community. That’s largely because I had not created the Displaced Journalists website and Facebook page at the time. I think it’s still relevant today. It is on my [...]
Pew study says Internet users more social, civically engaged
By Audrey Watters ReadWriteWeb January 18, 2011 That old stereotype that Internet users are isolated and anti-social is getting harder and harder to justify. In fact, the latest study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, aptly titled “The Social Side of the Internet,” challenges this notion even further, finding that Internet users are [...]
Deadline: KDMC News Entrepreneur Boot Camp
Jan. 14, is the deadline for applications to attend The Knight Digital Media Center (in partnership with the USC Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and the Online Journalism Review) News Entrepreneur Boot Camp to be held May 15-20, 2011, at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, in Los Angeles, CA. This intense one-week boot [...]
Pixar Lore: The Day Our Bosses Saved Our Jobs
By Bob Sutton Harvard Business Review Jan. 10, 2011 Pixar is one of my favorite companies on the planet. I love its films, its creative and constructive people (The Incredibles director Brad Bird is among the most intriguing people I’ve ever interviewed), and its relentless drive toward excellence. There’s a pride that permeates that place, [...]
Social commerce is the next big thing
Social Commerce Today Posted on January 6, 2011 by Paul Marsden So next month’s (Feb 2011) Wired magazine (UK edition) has just dropped, with a cover story on social commerce, by editor David Rowan and editorial assistant Tom Cheshire. The cover text- “What are you selling? Big Brands want to cash in on your Facebook [...]
The Economist: Britain’s embattled newspapers are leading the world in innovation
The Economist Jan. 6, 2011 By most conventional measures, Britain’s newspapers look doomed. Young readers are abandoning them for the internet and television. The Daily Express and the Daily Mirror, both tabloids, have shed about two-thirds of their circulation since the mid-1980s. Yet Evgeny Lebedev, co-owner of the Independent and the Evening Standard, is optimistic. [...]
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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]