Newsrooms Are Getting Whiter as Their Publications Struggle

Collin Tong, August 11, 2011 Collin Tong, staff reporter at the Inter­na­tional Exam­iner and Seattle-based stringer for The New York Times as well as a mem­ber of the May­nard Fam­ily, shared his piece from Crosscut.com: Diver­sity in the nation’s news­rooms is becom­ing the lat­est casu­alty of the eco­nomic woes fac­ing the Amer­i­can news­pa­per indus­try. For the third con­sec­u­tive year […]

Real World Media: The Reinvention of Journalism

By Susan Older. Real World Media gets dis­placed jour­nal­ists back to work. It rein­vents jour­nal­ism through Real World Media, a global net­work of fairly com­pen­sated reporters, pho­tog­ra­phers and video­g­ra­phers designed to get jour­nal­ists back to work to fill the void cre­ated when news man­agers laid off their best staff mem­bers. This is not a con­tent mill.

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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]

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