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 [...]
Elizabeth Neuffer fellowship: human rights
The International Women’s Media Foundation is accepting applications for the 2011-12 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, which is named for the 1998 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award winner and Boston Globe correspondent who was killed in Iraq in 2003. The program aims to advance Neuffer’s life mission of promoting international understanding of human rights and social justice [...]
How to break into ghostwriting workshop tonight
Calling all aspiring ghosts.: Ellen Neuborne of Gotham Ghostwriters, says, “We hope you can join us for the free workshop we are co-hosting Tuesday night with the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) on how to get into the ghostwriting game.” Participants in Manhattan will be meeting at the NYU Journalism Institute, 20 Cooper [...]
Reminder: Maynard multimedia fellow deadline
Displaced Journalists: Apply by April 15 at 11:59 PDT to receive a multimedia editing fellowship from the Maynard Institute at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevado-Reno.
USC Annenberg 2011 health reporting grants
Call for Applications! All-Expenses-Paid Mini Fellowship at USC Annenberg with $2,000-$10,000 Reporting Grant When: July 24-29, 2011 Where: Los Angeles Deadline to Apply: May 2, 2011 In this era of tight newsroom budgets and declining freelance fees, it’s often hard to find the resources to undertake an ambitious reporting project. The California Endowment Health Journalism [...]
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 [...]
KDMC workshop: Web publishing for independent journalists
The Knight Digital Media Center UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism The career path for many of today’s journalists is merging with entrepreneurship. Journalists who once covered topical, feature and investigative news for established newspapers are becoming independent publishers of specialty blogs and hyperlocal community news sites. These sites fulfill an important role in the emerging [...]
Deadline: KDMC News Entrepreneur Boot Camp
Jan. 14, is the deadline for applications to attend The Knight Digital Media Center (in partnership with the USC Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and the Online Journalism Review) News Entrepreneur Boot Camp to be held May 15-20, 2011, at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, in Los Angeles, CA. This intense one-week boot [...]
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 [...]
Digital Media Training at KDMC-Berkeley
The Knight Digital Media Center, which is associated the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has opened the application process for its next round of free week-long digital media workshops for working and independent journalists. The program teaches multimedia storytelling, including how to capture and edit video, photos and audio. There is a workshop on Web [...]
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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]