What’s your digital strategy? First, get a grip

REFLECTIONS OF A NEWSOSAUR MUSINGS (AND OCCASIONAL URGENT WARNINGS) OF A VETERAN MEDIA EXECUTIVE, WHO FEARS OUR NEWS-GATHERING COMPANIES ARE STUMBLING TO EXTINCTION By Alan D. Mut­ter, June 5, 2013 More often than you would think, an edi­tor or pub­lisher will con­tact me to ask, “What should my dig­i­tal strat­egy be?” The inquiry is alarm­ing on a […]

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 […]

Mother Jones Seeks Story Editor in DC

Story editor—Washington, DC You are a sea­soned news pro­fes­sional equally at home in 10,000 char­ac­ters and 140. You love the nar­ra­tive fea­ture, the deep doc­u­ments dive, the timely polit­i­cal scoop and the on-the-fly blog post. You make inves­tiga­tive sto­ries more lyri­cal, lyri­cal ones more polit­i­cal. You rel­ish work­ing in a fast-paced set­ting, break­ing news—and explain­ing the news. […]

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.

Myth #19: You Don’t Need Content to Design a Website

Editor’s note: Lanita Pace-Hinton at the Knight Dig­i­tal Media Cen­ter (based at UC-Berkeley Grad­u­ate School of Jour­nal­ism) shared this site, UXmyths.com, with me. It’s fas­ci­nat­ing, whether you pub­lish web­sites or just read them. This is the kind of stuff we, as jour­nal­ists today, need to under­stand. This is just Myth 19, so don’t neglect to […]

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 stories […]

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.

Poynter’s Digital Entrepreneurship Workshop: Building Your Online Business

Editor’s note: The Poyn­ter Insti­tute in St. Peters­burg, Fla., is tak­ing appli­ca­tions for its August work­shop in entre­pre­neur­ial jour­nal­ism. I attended this work­shop last July. I learned a great deal about start­ing my own busi­ness and how to make the most of my skills and ideas in the dig­i­tal news and infor­ma­tion mar­ket­place. I reworked […]

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.

News Certified Exchange: a trusted source database

News Cer­ti­fied Exchange (NCE) offers jour­nal­ists a cer­ti­fied, highly vet­ted mul­ti­me­dia data­base of sources they can trust, sources they can turn to to pro­vide fresh view­points and bet­ter coverage.

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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]

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