Note to J-schools: Don’t close, just reinvent
In a recent Boulder Daily Camera story about the University of Colorado’s decision to close its journalism school, several sources wondered whether more J-schools will soon close. They won’t, not as long as visionless journalism schools are willing to take tuition from students blind to the harsh realities of the profession.
Harlan Ellison: Pay the Writer
Do you ever feel like caving in and writing “for exposure”? Do you just want a reminder of why you haven’t done so? Watch the Harlan Ellison video: Pay the Writer. It’s a classic.
Reminder: Maynard multimedia fellow deadline
Displaced Journalists: Apply by April 15 at 11:59 PDT to receive a multimedia editing fellowship from the Maynard Institute at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevado-Reno.
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and NYT’s Bill Keller Trade Barbs at UC Berkeley
By Matt Smith San Francisco Weekly Blogs Julian Assange is a paranoid, misguided, smelly bag lady — not an open government hero. And New York Times executive editor Bill Keller? Well, he is a cynical dissembler interested more in covering his own ass than telling the truth. A couple hundred journalists, including yours truly, assembled [...]
USC Annenberg 2011 health reporting grants
Call for Applications! All-Expenses-Paid Mini Fellowship at USC Annenberg with $2,000-$10,000 Reporting Grant When: July 24-29, 2011 Where: Los Angeles Deadline to Apply: May 2, 2011 In this era of tight newsroom budgets and declining freelance fees, it’s often hard to find the resources to undertake an ambitious reporting project. The California Endowment Health Journalism [...]
AINN is looking for a media manager in DC
DisplacedJournalists.com: The American Independent News Network (AINN) seeks a dynamic individual to manage the promotion of the Network’s amazing reporters and hot breaking stories to outside media, including to press and through social media.
Reynolds Center seeks business journalists for visiting professor program
Displaced Journalists reports: The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation Visiting Business Journalism Professor’s Program will begin January 2012, with a visiting professors assigned to four campuses to teach business journalism coursework during a semester in residence.
News Certified Exchange: a trusted source database
News Certified Exchange (NCE) offers journalists a certified, highly vetted multimedia database of sources they can trust, sources they can turn to to provide fresh viewpoints and better coverage.
Knight Digital Media Center: Web 2.0 training
Editors note: I urge you to apply for this Knight Digital Media Center fellowship. I won a fellowship in multimedia reporting there last May. I can assure you — you will leave with an abundance of new skills and a network of new friends and colleagues who are actively helpful on a listserv for all KDMC graduates. At [...]
Investigative Voice and former Baltimore detective worked together on new book: “Why Do We Kill?”
Baltimore homicide detective joins award-winning investigative reporter at Investigative Voice and national crime website to peer into the minds of killers. Baltimore MD — Former Baltimore City homicide detective Kelvin Sewell has seen it all. Gang members burned alive; a baby unceremoniously stuffed into the ground by its own mother; a sex offender who killed [...]
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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]