Mother Jones Seeks Story Editor in DC

Story editor—Washington, DC You are a sea­soned news pro­fes­sional equally at home in 10,000 char­ac­ters and 140. You love the nar­ra­tive fea­ture, the deep doc­u­ments dive, the timely polit­i­cal scoop and the on-the-fly blog post. You make inves­tiga­tive sto­ries more lyri­cal, lyri­cal ones more polit­i­cal. You rel­ish work­ing in a fast-paced set­ting, break­ing news—and explain­ing the news. […]

How Does the Internet Give You a Voice? Help Craig Newmark Celebrate Internet Freedom Day

  Posted by Craig New­mark on CraigConnects.org, Jan.9, 2013  Inter­net Free­dom Day, Jan­u­ary 18th, that’s a big deal. Folks, I want to know: how does the Inter­net give you a voice?  I’m col­lect­ing answers about how the Inter­net gives peo­ple a voice that I will share on Inter­net Free­dom Day next Jan­u­ary 18th. Here’s the deal: Write about how the Internet […]

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.

strategy+business on “Social Apponomics”

Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists from strategy+business: Still, the emer­gence of vastly pop­u­lar community-driven sites offers a glimpse into a new busi­ness model for smart retail­ers and con­sumer goods com­pa­nies that bygone Inter­net ven­tures didn’t offer: an approach we call social apponomics.

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.

Mercury News: Does God Have a Facebook Page?

By Mike Cas­sidy Mer­cury News Are you there God? It’s me, twitter.com/mikecassidy. Maybe it’s no sur­prise that we’ve reached the point where, rather than look­ing to the heav­ens to find God, we’re look­ing to the cloud. It’s where we live now, with iPods, iPads, Android giz­mos, social net­works. The town square, com­plete with steepled church, has […]

Pew study says Internet users more social, civically engaged

By Audrey Wat­ters Read­WriteWeb Jan­u­ary 18, 2011 That old stereo­type that Inter­net users are iso­lated and anti-social is get­ting harder and harder to jus­tify. In fact, the lat­est study from the Pew Inter­net and Amer­i­can Life Project, aptly titled “The Social Side of the Inter­net,” chal­lenges this notion even fur­ther, find­ing that Inter­net users are actually […]

Debunking 5 Myths of Entrepreneurial Journalism

By Jeremy Caplan, Poyn­ter Online Entre­pre­neur­ial jour­nal­ists spot the seeds of start-ups where oth­ers see rem­nants of the news industry’s retreat. Ear­lier this month, I worked with 19 forward-looking journos who con­vened at Poyn­ter to get a jump­start on their new micro-businesses. One nar­rowed the focus of her niche news site for Fil­ipino Amer­i­cans, while another refined his […]

Knowledgewebb Launches Displaced Journalists Partnership with Free “Tech Savvy” Webinar

By Amy Webb CEO, Knowl­edgewebb Knowl­edgewebb is pleased to part­ner with Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists to offer com­mu­nity mem­bers a deep dis­count on its annual mem­ber­ship dues. Knowl­edgewebb offers hands-on train­ing, self-directed courses, ongo­ing webi­nars and more for pro­fes­sion­als work­ing in pub­lish­ing and small-business com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Need point­ers on how to edit an audio pod­cast? Want to brush […]

Hacks/Hackers Survival Glossary for Journalists

If you’re feel­ing over­whelmed by the jar­gon asso­ci­ated with dig­i­tal media, you are not alone. As Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists eager to get back in the game, we all need to be well-versed in ever-evolving tech­nol­ogy lingo. Hacks/Hackers, a net­work con­cerned with the inter­sec­tion of jour­nal­ism and tech­nol­ogy, has come up with a list of impor­tant tech­nol­ogy terms. […]

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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.

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