Mother Jones Climate Desk Job: SF, NYC or DC

Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists reports that Mother Jones mag­a­zine is going to hire a Senior Project Man­ager for its Cli­mate Desk. This new job for a jour­nal­ists of stature will be based at one of Mother Jones’ three offices: San Fran­cisco, New York, or Was­ing­ton, D.C.

Job Openings at NPR — D.C. Metro Area

NPR National Pub­lic Radio has a job open­ing in the D.C. metro area for a Deputy Man­ag­ing Editor.

Readers Can’t Trust Sites that Run Sloppy Copy

Susan older DisplacedJournalists.com news sites lose reader trust when they pub­lish errors and sloppy copy.

AINN is looking for a media manager in DC

DisplacedJournalists.com: The Amer­i­can Inde­pen­dent News Net­work (AINN) seeks a dynamic indi­vid­ual to man­age the pro­mo­tion of the Network’s amaz­ing reporters and hot break­ing sto­ries to out­side media, includ­ing to press and through social media.

WRITERS LIFEGUARD: Don’t Let the Bastards Rip You Off

By Jules Older I’m not one who regards edi­tors as bas­tards. I yam an edi­tor. I try not to be à bas­tard. Some­times I even suc­ceed. Ditto pub­lish­ers. They’re the ones who feed my fam­ily, and I don’t go around bit­ing the hand that feeds. But. But the ones who don’t pay… ah, now yer talkin’ bastards. […]

Which is Worse: The Waiting or the Fear?

By Holly Ker­foot “Dead man walk­ing!” The feel­ing that this should be shouted in the news­room when I pass by has faded, as have the mur­murs of sym­pa­thy from those who – for now – will be keep­ing their jobs. What remains is the uncer­tainty. You see, I work on a copy desk that is being […]

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 […]

The World Needs a Good Editor

By Susan Older Founder, Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists One of the things that irri­tates me most about the lay­offs and fir­ings at news­pa­pers, mag­a­zines and major web­sites these days is the fact that the peo­ple in charge have cho­sen replace­ments who don’t seem to care about the qual­ity of the prod­uct. Either that or they are une­d­u­cated. I […]

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