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. [...]
DPJs: I Value Your Ideas, as Well as Your Identities
Melanie Kolden is a former copy editor/arts & entertainment editor who has worked at the Dayton Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle and the L.A. Weekly. By Melanie Kolden I am a journalist, but I don’t have a recognizable byline. For all of the years that I worked in newspapers (15 plus) I was a behind-the-scenes player. Most [...]
Share Your Story With Us
By Susan Older Founder, Displaced Journalists Many of you have written to say you would like to get to know one another. With 685 (and counting) members on our Displaced Journalists Facebook page, that’s not easy. I commend those of you who’ve written about yourselves: Melanie Kolden, Mark Mayfield, Britt Conley, Jules Older (no relation), [...]
Print May Be on the Way Out, but Content is Here to Stay
By Mark Mayfield Thirty-two years ago I was a senior in college, and editor of my campus newspaper. I wrote editorials and columns on an old manual typewriter, with carbon sheets placed between cheap yellow pulp paper. Sound familiar? Anyone of my generation can remember a time before computers, before VCRs/DVRS, before cell phones and, [...]
Key: Personal Branding and Social Networking
By Susan Older Founder, Displaced Journalists Febrauary 22. 2010 Job applications are so five minutes ago. Ask anyone who has spent day after day submitting cover letters and resumes online to no avail. On the rare occasion that you get a callback, it generally leads nowhere. Why? Because they’ve never heard of you. You haven’t [...]
Sad About My Layoff? Not Me, I’m “The Photo Garden Bee”
Like everyone, I’ve been holding my breath each time rumors regarding “downsizing,” “right-sizing,” “cutbacks” or “sacrifices to the stock market gods” started swirling around the newsroom. Unfortunately, more often than not, most of the rumors have been followed by real layoffs of really talented friends and co-workers. This past December 1st was no different. The [...]
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Stop the Exploitation of Journalists
The author has shared the lede and link to Monday’s (Feb. 1) post on his blog: “Reflections of a Newsosaur: Musings (and occasional urgent warnings) of a veteran media executive who fears our news-gathering companies are stumbling to extinction.” By Alan D. Mutter It’s time for journalists to stop participating in their own exploitation by working for [...]
Welcome to Our Community
Welcome to Displaced Journalists. 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 [...]
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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]