FIJ Seeks Grant Proposals

WASHINGTON — The Fund for Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ism (FIJ) is seek­ing grant pro­pos­als for inde­pen­dent inves­tiga­tive projects from jour­nal­ists who need sup­port for travel and other report­ing expenses. The dead­line for pro­pos­als is 5 p.m. EDT, Mon­day, April 30. FIJ is inter­ested in pro­pos­als that break new ground and expose wrong­do­ing. Projects relat­ing to gov­ern­ment account­abil­ity and […]

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.

FIJ seeks grant proposals for investigative reporting

WASHINGTON (March 8, 2011) — The Fund for Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ism (FIJ) is seek­ing grant pro­pos­als for inde­pen­dent inves­tiga­tive projects from jour­nal­ists who need sup­port for travel and other report­ing expenses. The dead­line for pro­pos­als is 5 p.m. EDT, April 11. FIJ is par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in pro­pos­als from reporters inves­ti­gat­ing issues in the United States, involv­ing governmental […]

Two Weeks to Startup: Day 5, Find Financing

We join Entrepreneur.com’s “Two Weeks to Startup” series on Day 5. Click on the links below to read the first four sto­ries, and fol­low the rest of the series on Entrepreneur.com. After repeated attempts at squeez­ing your square self into a round hole, you may be finally admit­ting it isn’t going to work — you’re […]

HuffPo’s Achilles heel: Search engine optimization won’t work forever

By Farhad Man­joo Slate.com Are you won­der­ing, “will AOL’s acqui­si­tion of the Huff­in­g­ton Post be suc­cess­ful?” I bet you are, as that’s been a com­mon search engine query since the announce­ment ear­lier this week that AOL will buy the Huff­in­g­ton Post. Other ways you might phrase the ques­tion include, “AOL Huff­in­g­ton Post will work?” or […]

Face-to-face networking for entrepreneurs

Quick Pitch: Let­sLunch is a new net­work­ing ser­vice that intro­duces you to the movers and shak­ers of Sil­i­con Val­ley. Genius Idea: Social climb­ing is an art form often per­fected over the busi­ness lunch. For entre­pre­neurs, these lunches could help them net­work their way to cru­cial indus­try part­ner­ships or fund­ing deals. Newly launched startup Let­sLunch facil­i­tates these […]

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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]

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