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 [...]
WRITER’S LIFEGUARD: Saving the Chron
By Jules Older, independent columnist For better and worse, I tend to work on inspiration, not preparation. Better because I drop everything except deadlines and focus like a laser on the new project. Worse because I drop everything except deadlines. When everyone around you is expecting a right turn, a sudden swerve to the left [...]
WRITER’S LIFEGUARD: Show Me the Money
Editor’s note: Our most prolific Displaced Journalists member is definitely Jules Older, who shares my last name, but not my genes. We ran one of his Writer’s LifeGuard columns titled “Don’t Let the Bastards Rip You off” August 12, 2010. (Just check our archives.) These two columns deal with the same subject: what freelancers can [...]
The Story of Prohibition… in Napa
Editor’s note: Jules and Effin Older (no relation to me) are dedicated Displaced Journalists members. They have had successful careers as children’s book authors and travel writers. We all hope they will make substantial money doing those things again. For now, though, they have reinvented themselves as iPhone/iPad app creators (in the iTunes store: [...]
Gloating and the War in the World of Local
Schadenfreude, Part Two: I Apologize By Debbie Galant, Baristanet Posted September 8, 2011 on Authentically Local Schadenfreude, or gloating over another’s misfortune, is not a pretty thing. By definition. And though I’m used to being scolded by readers, my upbraiding by some of the Patch rank-and-file over my last post here has left me unexpectedly chastened. I [...]
Job Opening: Communications Specialist
JOB DESCRIPTION Our client, a global factory certification and training organization focused on the consumer products industry, seeks a Communications Specialist for its Arlington, VA headquarters. The incumbent will help develop and execute strategic programs involving a wide spectrum of communications, including press releases, blogs and other forms of social media. The candidate will work closely with headquarters and field [...]
D.C. PBS station looking for web producer
Web Producer, Washington Week WETA, Arlington, VA Come be a part of WETA’s dynamic Washington Week team. WETA, Washington DC’s public broadcasting station has an exciting opportunity as a Web Producer for its production, Washington Week with Gwen Ifill. Washington Week is PBS’ longest-running public affairs series and features Washington’s top journalists analyzing the week’s top news [...]
keep looking »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]