Writer’s Lifeguard: eBooks, ‘Skiing the Edge,’ Cyber Monday and All That
Editor’s note: This Writer’s Lifeguard column should have been posted earlier, but I procrastinated. The columnist, Jules Older, still unrelated to me, makes an offer to give his eBook away free for Cyber Monday. I strongly believe he will extend that offer one more day. Why? A.) Jules is generous. B.) Jules is familiar with [...]
Resilience is the Key to Surviving a Layoff
By Eileen Briesch For Displaced Journalists Two years ago, I got the word: Your life is ending. The career for which you worked the past 30-plus years is over. It was a normal Friday night, and then it wasn’t. We were going to order pizza from my favorite pizza place, and I was going around [...]
Video Brings WWII Black Marines Story Alive
Editor’s note: Joe Swickard wrote the story and Eric Seals created the stunning video for this Detroit Free Press package on the first African-American Marines. It’s a great example of how video enhances a news story. It also demonstrates the reason we as displaced journalists need to develop digital media skills. On Oct. 25 the [...]
Fund for Investigative Journalism Grant Renewed
The Fund for Investigative Journalism is proud to announce continuing support from the Park Foundation for the fund’s grant program for independent watchdog journalists. The Park Foundation, based in Ithaca, New York, has awarded the Fund for Investigative Journalism a grant for $75,000; it will give critical assistance to reporters working on domestic reporting projects. [...]
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]