Religion Newswriters Association Scholarship Application Deadline is Jan. 1

Jour­nal­ists inter­ested in tak­ing col­lege courses in reli­gion or spir­i­tu­al­ity have until Jan. 1 to apply for a schol­ar­ship pro­gram offered by the Reli­gion Newswrit­ers Asso­ci­a­tion. Jour­nal­ists will receive schol­ar­ships for up to $5,000 each to study reli­gion at any accred­ited col­lege, uni­ver­sity or sem­i­nary. Schol­ar­ships cover expenses includ­ing tuition, reg­is­tra­tion fees and books. Scholarships […]

USC’s Robert Hernandez: Hijack Your J-School’s Assets to Selfishly Improve Your Skills

Here’s Robert Her­nan­dez, jour­nal­ism pro­fes­sor at USC’s Annen­berg School of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Jour­nal­ism, with ideas on how stu­dents can make the resources of the j-school, and the web, bet­ter work for them. Her­nan­dez says stu­dents should bypass the nor­mal route. “Hijack your school’s assets,” he advises, “to self­ishly improve your skills.”

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 […]

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.

Maynard Institute offers multimedia fellowships

Editor’s note: We have plenty of mem­bers of the Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists com­mu­nity who work at news oper­a­tions (online or print) and  fear they won’t keep their jobs unless they  boost their dig­i­tal and mul­ti­me­dia skills. This May­nard Insti­tute month-long fel­low­ship is  a great oppor­tu­nity to get that train­ing. — Susan Older Mul­ti­me­dia Edit­ing Fel­low­ships Available […]

The Value of Real Journalism

Editor’s Note: Across the Amer­i­can polit­i­cal spec­trum, there has grown a deep dis­dain for jour­nal­ism, the seri­ous busi­ness of dig­ging out facts and pre­sent­ing the infor­ma­tion in an hon­est con­text. Too often, par­ti­sans of all per­sua­sions sim­ply want their own agit-prop. Obvi­ously, what has passed for U.S. jour­nal­ism in recent decades deserves a share of […]

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