Underemployed dad tests “Rent a Journalist”
Displaced Journalists: Underemployed journalist tries a new method — “Rent a Journalist.”
Reynolds Center seeks business journalists for visiting professor program
Displaced Journalists reports: The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation Visiting Business Journalism Professor’s Program will begin January 2012, with a visiting professors assigned to four campuses to teach business journalism coursework during a semester in residence.
Scripps Fellows Program to Strengthen Local News Coverage on Multiple Platforms
CINCINNATI – Leveraging its strength and reputation in an effort to define the future of journalism, The E.W. Scripps Company is shifting resources within its newspaper division to add multimedia journalists, editors and web developers in the company’s 13 newspaper markets. Through the new Scripps Fellows program, as many as 40 people will be hired [...]
Newsday to Hire 34 Journalists, Add News/Opinion Pages
Memo from Newsday’s editor From: ND-Communication Office Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:29 a.m. To: ND-Communication Office Subject: A message from Debby Krenek Dear colleagues, Newsday’s newsroom is hiring! In a big step forward on boosting our local coverage, during the next six months we will hire 34 new journalists for our newsroom and digital [...]
The Revolutionary Anti-Resume for Journalists
By Angela Lussier Special for Displaced Journalists For those journalists who have read the writing on the wall and are looking for ways to get out of traditional newspapers and into Web-based writing, now’s the best time in the history of the Web to do so. Journalists who follow market and business trends know that, [...]
DPJ Member: I Walk on Quicksand All Day Long
Hi, everyone. I agreed to publish this first-person piece from a member of our community without a byline because sometimes finding catharsis is hard enough without having to put your name up there in bright lights. As much as I’d love to have Displaced Journalists write and sign their stories, it’s getting to the point [...]
Faculty Openings at Medill School of Journalism
There are some interesting faculty openings at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, both in Evanston, Illinois, and in D.C. Some have passed the target application date, but they are still listed on the Medill website, so it’s worth the effort to inquire. The openings: Director of Research, Advertising/Media Messages and Content, Multimedia/Interactive (three openings), Public [...]
AOL Patch is Hiring
Andrea Stone, Displaced Journalists Community Member and Senior Washington Correspondent for AOL News, has asked me to tell you about these job opportunities. If you apply for one of the openings, please mention that you were referred by Andrea. AOL Patch is looking for regional editors and advertising sales directors in California, New York, Connecticut, [...]
Why Journalists Should Learn Computer Programming
By Roland Legrand, June 2, 2010 Yes, journalists should learn how to program. No, not every journalist should learn it right now — just those who want to stay in the industry for another ten years. More seriously, programming skills and knowledge enable us traditional journalists to tell better and more engaging stories. Programming means going [...]
Is Print Media Doomed Worldwide or Just in the US?
As I walked in the headquarters of the Jawa Pos—the flagship newspaper of one of South East Asia’s largest print media empires—I was wondering just how screwed my profession is; globally I mean. Is the death of print a world-wide certainty or merely an American reality? After all a lot of “old economy” businesses are thriving [...]
keep looking »Welcome 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]