Only 10 Displaced Journalists Remain Jobless?

Posted on | September 14, 2012 | No Comments

Susan Older, Dis­placed Journalists

I got only 10 résumés four months ago when I asked the Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists com­mu­nity — LinkedIn, this web­site, Face­book and Twit­ter — to help develop a tal­ent pool of jour­nal­ists seek­ing fair pay.

When I asked for résumés, I had a client look­ing for a con­sor­tium of jour­nal­ists who could be tapped or dis­patched quickly to cover sto­ries on a vari­ety of sub­jects and in many loca­tions. Unfor­tu­nately, with only 10 respond­ing, I couldn’t deliver.

I have the domain name Real World Media wait­ing to become a not-for-profit con­duit to hook jour­nal­ists up with clients will­ing to offer fair com­pen­sa­tion for our work. I haven’t built the web­site because I don’t detect any inter­est. Even then, I would need to seek foun­da­tion fund­ing to build basic oper­a­tions, but I believe it could work.

Am I wrong, though, about the lack of inter­est? Have most jour­nal­ists found jobs? Have we just given up? That client is gone, but if I had a bank of résumés, I could see what we have to offer as a group.

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