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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Public Radio’s original entrepreneur, Bill Kling, hopes to save local journalism, hire 100 reporters
By Andrew Phelps, Nieman Journalism Lab As he prepares to step down from the top of American Public Media, his job for the last 44 years, I recently made the mistake of congratulating Bill Kling on his retirement. Kling launched what would become Minnesota Public Radio in 1967, the year President Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act. [...]
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.
Underemployed dad tests “Rent a Journalist”
Displaced Journalists: Underemployed journalist tries a new method — “Rent a Journalist.”
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.
Scripps Fellows Program to Strengthen Local News Coverage on Multiple Platforms
CINCINNATI – Leveraging its strength and reputation in an effort to define the future of journalism, The E.W. Scripps Company is shifting resources within its newspaper division to add multimedia journalists, editors and web developers in the company’s 13 newspaper markets. Through the new Scripps Fellows program, as many as 40 people will be hired [...]
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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]