Underemployed dad tests “Rent a Journalist”
Displaced Journalists: Underemployed journalist tries a new method — “Rent a Journalist.”
strategy+business on “Social Apponomics”
Displaced Journalists from strategy+business: Still, the emergence of vastly popular community-driven sites offers a glimpse into a new business model for smart retailers and consumer goods companies that bygone Internet ventures didn’t offer: an approach we call social apponomics.
USC Annenberg 2011 health reporting grants
Call for Applications! All-Expenses-Paid Mini Fellowship at USC Annenberg with $2,000-$10,000 Reporting Grant When: July 24-29, 2011 Where: Los Angeles Deadline to Apply: May 2, 2011 In this era of tight newsroom budgets and declining freelance fees, it’s often hard to find the resources to undertake an ambitious reporting project. The California Endowment Health Journalism [...]
AINN is looking for a media manager in DC
DisplacedJournalists.com: The American Independent News Network (AINN) seeks a dynamic individual to manage the promotion of the Network’s amazing reporters and hot breaking stories to outside media, including to press and through social media.
Reynolds Center seeks business journalists for visiting professor program
Displaced Journalists reports: The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation Visiting Business Journalism Professor’s Program will begin January 2012, with a visiting professors assigned to four campuses to teach business journalism coursework during a semester in residence.
News Certified Exchange: a trusted source database
News Certified Exchange (NCE) offers journalists a certified, highly vetted multimedia database of sources they can trust, sources they can turn to to provide fresh viewpoints and better coverage.
Knight Digital Media Center: Web 2.0 training
Editors note: I urge you to apply for this Knight Digital Media Center fellowship. I won a fellowship in multimedia reporting there last May. I can assure you — you will leave with an abundance of new skills and a network of new friends and colleagues who are actively helpful on a listserv for all KDMC graduates. At [...]
Investigative Voice and former Baltimore detective worked together on new book: “Why Do We Kill?”
Baltimore homicide detective joins award-winning investigative reporter at Investigative Voice and national crime website to peer into the minds of killers. Baltimore MD — Former Baltimore City homicide detective Kelvin Sewell has seen it all. Gang members burned alive; a baby unceremoniously stuffed into the ground by its own mother; a sex offender who killed [...]
WRITERS LIFEGUARD: What to do when there’s naught to do
By Jules Older When you’re out of work, or, put more genteelly, underemployed, what do you do with your newfound leisure time? By ‘leisure time,’ I mean time nobody’s paying you to use. Everybody’s different in needs, time, mortgages and inclination, but I know what’s working for me. In hopes that some of it will [...]
FIJ seeks grant proposals for investigative reporting
WASHINGTON (March 8, 2011) — The Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) is seeking grant proposals for independent investigative projects from journalists who need support for travel and other reporting expenses. The deadline for proposals is 5 p.m. EDT, April 11. FIJ is particularly interested in proposals from reporters investigating issues in the United States, involving [...]
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]