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.”

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.

Underemployed dad tests “Rent a Journalist”

Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists: Under­em­ployed jour­nal­ist tries a new method — “Rent a Journalist.”

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.

Investigative journalism grant for independent journalists

Wash­ing­ton ( Feb­ru­ary 16, 2011) – The Fund for Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ism is proud to announce con­tin­u­ing sup­port for its grant pro­gram for inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ists from the Ethics and Excel­lence in Jour­nal­ism Foun­da­tion, based in Okla­homa City. The Foun­da­tion has announced a grant for $75,000 that will give crit­i­cal assis­tance to reporters who have the ideas, sources, […]

HuffPo’s Achilles heel: Search engine optimization won’t work forever

By Farhad Man­joo Slate.com Are you won­der­ing, “will AOL’s acqui­si­tion of the Huff­in­g­ton Post be suc­cess­ful?” I bet you are, as that’s been a com­mon search engine query since the announce­ment ear­lier this week that AOL will buy the Huff­in­g­ton Post. Other ways you might phrase the ques­tion include, “AOL Huff­in­g­ton Post will work?” or […]

Free Webinar: There Are No Stupid Questions

Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists’ part­ner Knowl­edgewebb, a pre­mier site for dig­i­tal media and other help­ful train­ing, is giv­ing us all a free webi­nar for Christ­mas. It’s Tues­day, Dec. 7, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. EST. From Knowledgewebb.net, Nov. 17, 2010 We’ve all been there. You’re sit­ting in a meet­ing or in a con­fer­ence ses­sion, and some­one men­tions a something […]

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, […]

Travelwritten: A Travel Writer’s Guide to Self-Publishing on the Web

Trav­el­writ­ten is a how-to site and blog for travel writ­ers who want to become writer-publishers on the Web. Author Durant Imbo­den has been co-owner, pub­lisher and edi­tor of Europe for Vis­i­tors for nine years. He was with MSN, About.com, and other online com­pa­nies from 1995 until 2001. By Durant Imbo­den, Europe for Vis­i­tors The Time­ses, they […]

Debunking 5 Myths of Entrepreneurial Journalism

By Jeremy Caplan, Poyn­ter Online Entre­pre­neur­ial jour­nal­ists spot the seeds of start-ups where oth­ers see rem­nants of the news industry’s retreat. Ear­lier this month, I worked with 19 forward-looking journos who con­vened at Poyn­ter to get a jump­start on their new micro-businesses. One nar­rowed the focus of her niche news site for Fil­ipino Amer­i­cans, while another refined his […]

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