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.

‘Nomad’ Digital Mag to Tap Mobile Market, Pay Freelancers Share of Subscription Revenue

A new pub­lish­ing ven­ture has launched which takes advan­tage of mobile devices. A group of mag­a­zine jour­nal­ists and edi­tors have formed to pub­lish a weekly dig­i­tal mag­a­zine, Nomad Edi­tions, specif­i­cally for mobile tech­nol­ogy. Con­tent will be cre­ated by free­lance jour­nal­ists with area-specific exper­tise; read­ers, who will sub­scribe through a mobile app, can receive an “exclusive, […]

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 […]

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 […]

DPJs: I Value Your Ideas, as Well as Your Identities

Melanie Kolden is a for­mer copy editor/arts & enter­tain­ment edi­tor who  has worked at the Day­ton Daily News, the San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle and the L.A. Weekly. By Melanie Kolden I am a jour­nal­ist, but I don’t have a rec­og­niz­able byline. For all of the years that I worked in news­pa­pers (15 plus) I was a behind-the-scenes player. Most […]

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), and Geveryl […]

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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.

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