Jobs: Multimedia Content Producers Sought

By Susan Older Founder, Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists I have a con­tact who is look­ing to assem­ble a small group of fairly reg­u­lar con­tent pro­duc­ers who, in his words, ide­ally have the fol­low­ing qual­i­fi­ca­tions (in order of impor­tance): 1.  Strong writ­ing skills:  must be able to pro­duce well researched, accu­rate, and very clean copy that does not require […]

Update: Tomorrow Last Day to Apply for Commonwealth Club of California Fellowship

But­ler Koshland Fel­low­ships is look­ing for an inde­pen­dent, intel­li­gent, and highly-motivated per­son to serve as a fel­low to Dr. Glo­ria Duffy, Pres­i­dent and CEO of The Com­mon­wealth Club of Cal­i­for­nia. The Com­mon­wealth Club of Cal­i­for­nia is the nation’s old­est and largest pub­lic affairs forum. A non­profit, non­par­ti­san edu­ca­tional orga­ni­za­tion, they bring over 400 annual events […]

Mother Jones Climate Desk Job: SF, NYC or DC

Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists reports that Mother Jones mag­a­zine is going to hire a Senior Project Man­ager for its Cli­mate Desk. This new job for a jour­nal­ists of stature will be based at one of Mother Jones’ three offices: San Fran­cisco, New York, or Was­ing­ton, D.C.

Job Openings at NPR — D.C. Metro Area

NPR National Pub­lic Radio has a job open­ing in the D.C. metro area for a Deputy Man­ag­ing Editor.

Writer’s Lifeguard: Money, Favors, Fifty Shades

  By Jules Older, Feb. 5, 2013 Any­one? Any­one? Mak­ing Money You may recall, in Writer’s Life­guard 78, I announced, “My goal, my aim, my early res­o­lu­tion for 2013 is to start mak­ing money again.” Too early to tell if that will work, but I’ve started putting it into prac­tice. Three exam­ples… 1.    After my ski quiz appeared […]

Ad Age: Time Inc. Cuts Some 500 Jobs

Time Inc., the pub­lisher of mag­a­zines includ­ing Time and Sports Illus­trated, has begun elim­i­nat­ing about 6% of its head count — nearly 500 jobs — in the biggest round of cuts at the com­pany since 2008, Ad Age reports.

Job: Digital Media War Room Chief in DC

DDC Advo­cacy is look­ing for a tal­ented and pas­sion­ate Dig­i­tal Media Man­ager to join our Advo­cacy Ser­vices team. This per­son will be respon­si­ble for man­ag­ing a team of asso­ciates mon­i­tor­ing, track­ing, and ana­lyz­ing large quan­ti­ties of online, dig­i­tal, and tra­di­tional media cov­er­age for mul­ti­ple clients.

Only 10 Displaced Journalists Remain Jobless?

Susan Older, Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists I got only 10 résumés four months ago when I asked the Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists com­mu­nity — LinkedIn, this web­site, Face­book and Twit­ter — to help develop a tal­ent pool of jour­nal­ists seek­ing fair pay. When I asked for résumés, I had a client look­ing for a con­sor­tium of jour­nal­ists who could be tapped […]

Commentary: Why Jobless Rate Differs Among Journalists

By Daniel Axel­rod The unem­ploy­ment rate of 7.7 per­cent (see study below) for new grad­u­ates of jour­nal­ism schools is a half per­cent­age point lower than the national unem­ploy­ment rate, and the accom­pa­ny­ing median salary pro­jec­tion of $32,000 for new j-school grads is com­men­su­rate with the most recent Asso­ci­a­tion for Edu­ca­tion in Jour­nal­ism and Mass Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (AEJMC) esti­mate of $30,000. But beyond a […]

WorldBank.org Seeks Social Media Specialist

The World Bank’s exter­nal web site—www.worldbank.org—provides 204 mil­lion unique vis­i­tors a year with timely infor­ma­tion and serves as a sym­bol of the institution’s trans­parency and will­ing­ness to work with clients and part­ners around the world. It is the Bank’s most pub­lic tool for broad­cast­ing results and demon­strat­ing open­ness and account­abil­ity. Man­ag­ing the qual­ity and presentation […]

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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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