Freelancers Welcome: Fellowships for Health Journalists at USC Los Angeles
By Susan Older Founder, Displaced Journalists Health journalists have an amazing opportunity this summer — to step away from the daily routine and attend a fellowship seminar July 11-16 in Los Angeles. The week-long session explores the intersection between community health, health policy and the nation’s growing ethnic diversity, as well as the role that factors [...]
Don’t Let Inertia Tie You Down: Adversity Leads to New Opportunities
By Marcie Eanes March 17, 2010 Recent upheavals in journalism have left people scratching their heads at this unprecedented level of uncertainty. All the hard work of building a career can easily disappear with a pink slip. After packing up your desk, commiserating with colleagues, and trying to put on a brave front, the question of what to do [...]
AOL is Still Hiring Regional Editors
AOL is still hiring. If you are interested in any of the following positions, go to the AOL Careers Site, submit your application, and make sure to mention that Andrea Stone, senior Washington correspondent for AOL News, referred you. Then send a your resume to Andrea at andrea.stone@corp.aol.com, so she can pass it along and call [...]
Share Your Story With Us
By Susan Older Founder, Displaced Journalists Many of you have written to say you would like to get to know one another. With 685 (and counting) members on our Displaced Journalists Facebook page, that’s not easy. I commend those of you who’ve written about yourselves: Melanie Kolden, Mark Mayfield, Britt Conley, Jules Older (no relation), [...]
Print May Be on the Way Out, but Content is Here to Stay
By Mark Mayfield Thirty-two years ago I was a senior in college, and editor of my campus newspaper. I wrote editorials and columns on an old manual typewriter, with carbon sheets placed between cheap yellow pulp paper. Sound familiar? Anyone of my generation can remember a time before computers, before VCRs/DVRS, before cell phones and, [...]
“15 Minutes of Fame” Isn’t Worth Compromise
By Geveryl Robinson February 15, 2010 In 2007, one of my students, John Weldon, was murdered. I was an English instructor at Savannah Technical College, and John, who grew up in one of the worst housing projects in Savannah, was the first person in his family to attend college. The last time I saw John, [...]
« go backWelcome to Our Community
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]