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. […]

The Onion: Copy Editors Die in Stylebook War

This is a great story from the Onion. If, by chance, you don’t know The Onion, check it out. It’s hilar­i­ous. — Susan New York—Law enforce­ment offi­cials con­firmed Fri­day that four more copy edi­tors were killed this week amid ongo­ing vio­lence between two rival gangs divided by their loy­al­ties to the The Asso­ci­ated Press Style­book and The Chicago Manual […]

Only 10 Displaced Journalists Remain Jobless?

Susan Older, Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists I got only 10 résumés four months ago when I asked the Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists com­mu­nity — LinkedIn, this web­site, Face­book and Twit­ter — to help develop a tal­ent pool of jour­nal­ists seek­ing fair pay. When I asked for résumés, I had a client look­ing for a con­sor­tium of jour­nal­ists who could be tapped […]

FIJ Seeks Grant Proposals

WASHINGTON — The Fund for Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ism (FIJ) is seek­ing grant pro­pos­als for inde­pen­dent inves­tiga­tive projects from jour­nal­ists who need sup­port for travel and other report­ing expenses. The dead­line for pro­pos­als is 5 p.m. EDT, Mon­day, April 30. FIJ is inter­ested in pro­pos­als that break new ground and expose wrong­do­ing. Projects relat­ing to gov­ern­ment account­abil­ity and […]

The Banyan Project Needs Help with Launch

The Banyan project is devoted to serv­ing the dis­tinc­tive infor­ma­tion needs of less-than-affluent Amer­i­cans, a huge pub­lic that’s ill-served by main­stream jour­nal­ism and has borne the brunt of the Great Recession.

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 Square […]

Writers Lifeguard: Why can’t I write killer ledes?

This is a Writer’s Life­guard col­umn Jules Older wrote before we started pub­lish­ing his com­men­tary here on Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists. If you’re sen­si­tive about read­ing what a few Ama­zon review­ers called “raunchy” lan­guage in ref­er­ence to one of the books Jules men­tions, stop read­ing now. Oth­er­wise, enjoy. It’s one of those pieces that never loses its […]

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.

FIJ seeks grant proposals for investigative reporting

WASHINGTON (March 8, 2011) — The Fund for Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ism (FIJ) is seek­ing grant pro­pos­als for inde­pen­dent inves­tiga­tive projects from jour­nal­ists who need sup­port for travel and other report­ing expenses. The dead­line for pro­pos­als is 5 p.m. EDT, April 11. FIJ is par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in pro­pos­als from reporters inves­ti­gat­ing issues in the United States, involv­ing governmental […]

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