Underemployed dad tests “Rent a Journalist”

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

WRITERS LIFEGUARD: Mantrae of Our Times

Way back when — in April, 2009 — I called Writ­ers Life­guard No. 16, “Mantrae for Our Times.” It had but four mark­ers of change: Screen is the new Paper Short is the new Deep Pic­tures are the new Words Free is the new Pay Now, more than a year fur­ther into our climb — or plunge — from Gutenberg […]

Point Reyes Light Strikes New Path with Hybrid Business Model

The Pulitzer-prize win­ning Point Reyes Light is now owned by the Point Reyes Light Pub­lish­ing Co. L3C, a low-profit lim­ited lia­bil­ity com­pany, which is owned by Marin Media Insti­tute, a non­profit cor­po­ra­tion that has applied for 501c3 sta­tus. From The Inves­tiga­tive Report­ing Work­shop, Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity School of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion They had a choice. They could watch […]

Programmer-Journalist? Hacker-Journalist? Our Identity Crisis

“Labels mat­ter,” writes 2009 Knight News Chal­lenge Win­ner Aron Pil­hofer. “And as this niche of jour­nal­ism grows more main­stream, labels will mat­ter that much more. So, who are we?” Read more of Pilhofer’s thoughts on the sub­ject at the Medi­aShift Idea Lab site. Pil­hofer wel­comes ideas.

Displaced Journalist Replaces “The Rocky” with “Fit to Print” Life

M.E. Spren­gelmeyer is “reporter/publisher” of The Guadalupe County Com­mu­ni­ca­tor, a 2,000-circulation weekly in the col­or­ful Route 66 com­mu­nity of Santa Rosa, New Mex­ico. M.E., as he prefers to be called, was Wash­ing­ton cor­re­spon­dent for the Rocky Moun­tain News when the Denver-based news­pa­per pub­lished its final edi­tion Feb­ru­ary 27, 2009. He was a dis­placed jour­nal­ist, but not for long. The […]

Who Needs Meetings? Online News Ventures Do

By Susan Older Founder, Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists I real­ized quite recently that I’ve been miss­ing out on some­thing that should be fas­ci­nat­ing: TimesCast – a daily video fea­ture on The New York Times site fea­tur­ing inter­views with writ­ers and edi­tors cov­er­ing hot sto­ries of the day and snip­pets from meet­ings of senior edi­tors dis­cussing what should go […]

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 next […]

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, of […]

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