The Banyan Project Needs Help with Launch
The Banyan project is devoted to serving the distinctive information needs of less-than-affluent Americans, a huge public that’s ill-served by mainstream journalism and has borne the brunt of the Great Recession.
Point Reyes Light Strikes New Path with Hybrid Business Model
The Pulitzer-prize winning Point Reyes Light is now owned by the Point Reyes Light Publishing Co. L3C, a low-profit limited liability company, which is owned by Marin Media Institute, a nonprofit corporation that has applied for 501c3 status. From The Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University School of Communication They had a choice. They could watch [...]
Resources for Writers: Five Places to Find a Writing Buddy
By Angela Atkinson, Writing Careers Examiner The working life of a writer can be quite solitary, and while many writers join supportive online communities to share ideas and get advice from other writers, there’s something to be said for a personal relationship with a writing buddy. Many writers report a marked improvement in their productivity and [...]
Don’t Let Inertia Tie You Down: Adversity Leads to New Opportunities
By Marcie Eanes March 17, 2010 Recent upheavals in journalism have left people scratching their heads at this unprecedented level of uncertainty. All the hard work of building a career can easily disappear with a pink slip. After packing up your desk, commiserating with colleagues, and trying to put on a brave front, the question of what to do [...]
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 [...]
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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]