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.
Two Weeks to Startup: Day 5, Find Financing
We join Entrepreneur.com’s “Two Weeks to Startup” series on Day 5. Click on the links below to read the first four stories, and follow the rest of the series on Entrepreneur.com. After repeated attempts at squeezing your square self into a round hole, you may be finally admitting it isn’t going to work — you’re [...]
Pitch your new venture idea to We Media for a shot at $25,000 in launch funding
We Media is accepting pitches for new ventures through Friday, Feb. 11. Here’s how it works: You submit your ideas. They discuss and vote. The best ideas bubble to the top. The top two new ventures each get $25,000 to launch themselves. We Media is looking for “bold ideas for new businesses that use media, [...]
Seeking foundation support for your news start up? Three tips for news entrepreneurs
By Michele McLellan, News Leadership 3.0 Knight Digital Media Center January 25, 2011 As traditional news organizations do less, local foundations are becoming more willing to make grants in support of news and information projects. Still, their resources are not limitless and I often run into journalist entrepreneurs who have highly unrealistic ideas about what [...]
WRITERS LIFEGUARD: Don’t Let the Bastards Rip You Off
By Jules Older I’m not one who regards editors as bastards. I yam an editor. I try not to be a bastard. Sometimes I even succeed. Ditto publishers. They’re the ones who feed my family, and I don’t go around biting the hand that feeds. But. But the ones who don’t pay… ah, now yer [...]
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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]