Newsday to Hire 34 Journalists, Add News/Opinion Pages
Memo from Newsday’s editor From: ND-Communication Office Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:29 a.m. To: ND-Communication Office Subject: A message from Debby Krenek Dear colleagues, Newsday’s newsroom is hiring! In a big step forward on boosting our local coverage, during the next six months we will hire 34 new journalists for our newsroom and digital [...]
The Revolutionary Anti-Resume for Journalists
By Angela Lussier Special for Displaced Journalists For those journalists who have read the writing on the wall and are looking for ways to get out of traditional newspapers and into Web-based writing, now’s the best time in the history of the Web to do so. Journalists who follow market and business trends know that, [...]
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: The Content Mill Way
By John D. Vincent Special for Displaced Journalists The revelation that Demand Studios is producing content for reputable news sites is disturbing. Like a rancid baklava, it is bad on countless levels. For those of you who don’t know, Demand Studios produces short, rigidly-formatted articles for a variety of sites using a pool of underpaid [...]
WSJ: Five Mistakes Online Job Hunters Make
By Elizabeth Garone, The Wall Street Journal Posted 7/22/1020, 10:57 EDT In a tight job market, building and maintaining an online presence is critical to networking and job hunting. Done right, it can be an important tool for present and future networking and useful for potential employers trying to get a sense of who you [...]
DPJ Member: I Walk on Quicksand All Day Long
Hi, everyone. I agreed to publish this first-person piece from a member of our community without a byline because sometimes finding catharsis is hard enough without having to put your name up there in bright lights. As much as I’d love to have Displaced Journalists write and sign their stories, it’s getting to the point [...]
Faculty Openings at Medill School of Journalism
There are some interesting faculty openings at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, both in Evanston, Illinois, and in D.C. Some have passed the target application date, but they are still listed on the Medill website, so it’s worth the effort to inquire. The openings: Director of Research, Advertising/Media Messages and Content, Multimedia/Interactive (three openings), Public [...]
AOL Patch is Hiring
Andrea Stone, Displaced Journalists Community Member and Senior Washington Correspondent for AOL News, has asked me to tell you about these job opportunities. If you apply for one of the openings, please mention that you were referred by Andrea. AOL Patch is looking for regional editors and advertising sales directors in California, New York, Connecticut, [...]
We’re Not Done Yet; What Shall We Do Next?
By Susan Older Founder, Displaced Journalists We have a rapidly growing, multi-talented Facebook community. What shall we do next with this initiative? As one of our writers, Melanie Kolden, pointed out on our site in March, we really don’t know one another. (Of course, we just started in January.) We share articles, links, and comments. But [...]
AOL is Still Hiring Regional Editors
AOL is still hiring. If you are interested in any of the following positions, go to the AOL Careers Site, submit your application, and make sure to mention that Andrea Stone, senior Washington correspondent for AOL News, referred you. Then send a your resume to Andrea at andrea.stone@corp.aol.com, so she can pass it along and call [...]
The World Needs a Good Editor
By Susan Older Founder, Displaced Journalists One of the things that irritates me most about the layoffs and firings at newspapers, magazines and major websites these days is the fact that the people in charge have chosen replacements who don’t seem to care about the quality of the product. Either that or they are uneducated. [...]
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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]