Jobs: Multimedia Content Producers Sought

By Susan Older Founder, Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists I have a con­tact who is look­ing to assem­ble a small group of fairly reg­u­lar con­tent pro­duc­ers who, in his words, ide­ally have the fol­low­ing qual­i­fi­ca­tions (in order of impor­tance): 1.  Strong writ­ing skills:  must be able to pro­duce well researched, accu­rate, and very clean copy that does not require […]

Mercury News: Does God Have a Facebook Page?

By Mike Cas­sidy Mer­cury News Are you there God? It’s me, twitter.com/mikecassidy. Maybe it’s no sur­prise that we’ve reached the point where, rather than look­ing to the heav­ens to find God, we’re look­ing to the cloud. It’s where we live now, with iPods, iPads, Android giz­mos, social net­works. The town square, com­plete with steepled church, has […]

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 […]

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, phở­tos and audio. There is a work­shop on Web […]

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 […]

‘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, […]

Stephen Janis is Baltimore’s Alternative Journalist

By Rachel McAthy, Journalism.co.uk August 11, 2010 He might be shad­ow­ing an apart­ment man­ager deal­ing with sus­pected drug deal­ers one day and dis­cussing the polic­ing of crime with vet­eran detec­tives the next. Every­day, Stephen Janis aims to be the jour­nal­ist on the ground, cov­er­ing crime and cor­rup­tion sto­ries missed by the main­stream. Janis is an award-winning […]

Missed the DPJ/Knowledgewebb webinar?

If you didn’t catch Thursday’s Knowl­edgewebb webi­nar “10 Steps to a Tech Savvy You,” you will find it through Aug. 20 posted here. All of the notes and links are up there, too, so you can grab those if you didn’t take notes dur­ing the webi­nar. More than 300 of us were online for the […]

Knowledgewebb Launches Displaced Journalists Partnership with Free “Tech Savvy” Webinar

By Amy Webb CEO, Knowl­edgewebb Knowl­edgewebb is pleased to part­ner with Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists to offer com­mu­nity mem­bers a deep dis­count on its annual mem­ber­ship dues. Knowl­edgewebb offers hands-on train­ing, self-directed courses, ongo­ing webi­nars and more for pro­fes­sion­als work­ing in pub­lish­ing and small-business com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Need point­ers on how to edit an audio pod­cast? Want to brush […]

Hacks/Hackers Survival Glossary for Journalists

If you’re feel­ing over­whelmed by the jar­gon asso­ci­ated with dig­i­tal media, you are not alone. As Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists eager to get back in the game, we all need to be well-versed in ever-evolving tech­nol­ogy lingo. Hacks/Hackers, a net­work con­cerned with the inter­sec­tion of jour­nal­ism and tech­nol­ogy, has come up with a list of impor­tant tech­nol­ogy terms. […]

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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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