Writer’s Lifeguard: eBooks, ‘Skiing the Edge,’ Cyber Monday and All That
Editor’s note: This Writer’s Lifeguard column should have been posted earlier, but I procrastinated. The columnist, Jules Older, still unrelated to me, makes an offer to give his eBook away free for Cyber Monday. I strongly believe he will extend that offer one more day. Why? A.) Jules in generous. B.) Jules is familiar with [...]
How to break into ghostwriting workshop tonight
Calling all aspiring ghosts.: Ellen Neuborne of Gotham Ghostwriters, says, “We hope you can join us for the free workshop we are co-hosting Tuesday night with the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) on how to get into the ghostwriting game.” Participants in Manhattan will be meeting at the NYU Journalism Institute, 20 Cooper [...]
Underemployed dad tests “Rent a Journalist”
Displaced Journalists: Underemployed journalist tries a new method — “Rent a Journalist.”
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: Anne and Me, We Disagree
By Jules Older Anne Lamott is my favorite writer who writes about writing. “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamott is my favorite book about writing. “Word by Word” by Anne Lamott is my favorite audiobook about writing. But I’ve got a bone to pick with Anne Lamott. It’s because of something she said at the [...]
CJR: Yahoo’s New Digital Media Stylebook
By Bill Grueskin August 12, 2010 11:11 a.m. The Yahoo Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World | St. Martin’s Griffin | 528 pages, $21.99 If you strolled by a copy editor’s desk at any metro newsroom thirty years ago, you would have likely seen, sandwiched between [...]
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 a 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 [...]
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 [...]
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: The Content Mill Way
By John D. Vincent Special for Displaced Journalists The revelation that Demand Studios is producing content for reputable news sites is disturbing. Like a rancid baklava, it is bad on countless levels. For those of you who don’t know, Demand Studios produces short, rigidly-formatted articles for a variety of sites using a pool of underpaid [...]
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 [...]
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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.
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]