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 […]

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 is 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 Square […]

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 beginning […]

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 the […]

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. […]

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 […]

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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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