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 [...]
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.
Contract Editor Needed Now at ConfluenceCorp.com
Confluencecorp.com, which is based in D.C., is looking for a contractor to copy edit five deliverables (about maybe 500 pages or so). Aside from editing, Confluence wants someone who can make these products more attractive (for example, inserting call-outs or other items of interest). The work would start this week and could take the next few weeks. The post [...]
The Banyan Project Needs Help with Launch
The Banyan project is devoted to serving the distinctive information needs of less-than-affluent Americans, a huge public that’s ill-served by mainstream journalism and has borne the brunt of the Great Recession.
FIJ Awards Grants to Investigative Journalists
Fund for Investigative Journalism Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 WASHINGTON – (June 8, 2011) The Board of Directors of the Fund for Investigative Journalism has awarded eleven grants to independent watchdog journalists in the United States, Asia, Africa, and Europe. The board awarded $35,200 in grants to cover travel and other reporting expenses for investigative stories [...]
Poynter’s Digital Entrepreneurship Workshop: Building Your Online Business
Editor’s note: The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., is taking applications for its August workshop in entrepreneurial journalism. I attended this workshop last July. I learned a great deal about starting my own business and how to make the most of my skills and ideas in the digital news and information marketplace. I reworked [...]
Elizabeth Neuffer fellowship: human rights
The International Women’s Media Foundation is accepting applications for the 2011-12 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, which is named for the 1998 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award winner and Boston Globe correspondent who was killed in Iraq in 2003. The program aims to advance Neuffer’s life mission of promoting international understanding of human rights and social justice [...]
How to break into ghostwriting workshop tonight
Calling all aspiring ghosts.: Ellen Neuborne of Gotham Ghostwriters, says, “We hope you can join us for the free workshop we are co-hosting Tuesday night with the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) on how to get into the ghostwriting game.” Participants in Manhattan will be meeting at the NYU Journalism Institute, 20 Cooper [...]
Readers Can’t Trust Sites that Run Sloppy Copy
Susan older DisplacedJournalists.com news sites lose reader trust when they publish errors and sloppy copy.
Does Posting to Twitter Make You a Journalist?
By Mathew Ingram There’s been a lot of discussion about what the U.S. military strike on Osama bin Laden’s compound says about the state of the media today, and the latest debate is whether Sohaib Athar — the Pakistani resident who live-tweeted the raid — is a journalist or not. SF Weekly blogger Dan Mitchell [...]
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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]