Mercury News: Does God Have a Facebook Page?
By Mike Cassidy Mercury News Are you there God? It’s me, twitter.com/mikecassidy. Maybe it’s no surprise that we’ve reached the point where, rather than looking to the heavens to find God, we’re looking to the cloud. It’s where we live now, with iPods, iPads, Android gizmos, social networks. The town square, complete with steepled church, [...]
Maynard Institute offers multimedia fellowships
Editor’s note: We have plenty of members of the Displaced Journalists community who work at news operations (online or print) and fear they won’t keep their jobs unless they boost their digital and multimedia skills. This Maynard Institute month-long fellowship is a great opportunity to get that training. — Susan Older Multimedia Editing Fellowships Available [...]
Investigative journalism grant for independent journalists
Washington ( February 16, 2011) – The Fund for Investigative Journalism is proud to announce continuing support for its grant program for independent journalists from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, based in Oklahoma City. The Foundation has announced a grant for $75,000 that will give critical assistance to reporters who have the ideas, [...]
Two Weeks to Startup: Day 5, Find Financing
We join Entrepreneur.com’s “Two Weeks to Startup” series on Day 5. Click on the links below to read the first four stories, and follow the rest of the series on Entrepreneur.com. After repeated attempts at squeezing your square self into a round hole, you may be finally admitting it isn’t going to work — you’re [...]
CUNY’s Jeremy Caplan chats with media entrepreneur Elizabeth Spiers
Jeremy Caplan interviews on video media entrepreneur Elizabeth Spiers.
HuffPo’s Achilles heel: Search engine optimization won’t work forever
By Farhad Manjoo Slate.com Are you wondering, “will AOL’s acquisition of the Huffington Post be successful?” I bet you are, as that’s been a common search engine query since the announcement earlier this week that AOL will buy the Huffington Post. Other ways you might phrase the question include, “AOL Huffington Post will work?” or [...]
Face-to-face networking for entrepreneurs
Quick Pitch: LetsLunch is a new networking service that introduces you to the movers and shakers of Silicon Valley. Genius Idea: Social climbing is an art form often perfected over the business lunch. For entrepreneurs, these lunches could help them network their way to crucial industry partnerships or funding deals. Newly launched startup LetsLunch facilitates [...]
Pitch your new venture idea to We Media for a shot at $25,000 in launch funding
We Media is accepting pitches for new ventures through Friday, Feb. 11. Here’s how it works: You submit your ideas. They discuss and vote. The best ideas bubble to the top. The top two new ventures each get $25,000 to launch themselves. We Media is looking for “bold ideas for new businesses that use media, [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s Daily: Who needs paper?
EIGHT years ago Apple launched iTunes, a digital store selling music singles for 99 cents apiece. For record companies ravaged by piracy, it seemed like a good deal. Only later did many come to regret allowing another company to set retail prices and to get between them and their customers. On February 2nd Apple and [...]
Inc.com: How to write a business plan
By Elizabeth Wasserman Inc.com A great business plan is a living, breathing blueprint for your business that can help you navigate and manage your company while also helping potential investors, partners, lenders, and others understand your business strategy and your chances at success. A business plan is never quite finished because you’re always revising it, reviewing [...]
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]