Displaced Journalist Replaces “The Rocky” with “Fit to Print” Life

M.E. Spren­gelmeyer is “reporter/publisher” of The Guadalupe County Com­mu­ni­ca­tor, a 2,000-circulation weekly in the col­or­ful Route 66 com­mu­nity of Santa Rosa, New Mex­ico. M.E., as he prefers to be called, was Wash­ing­ton cor­re­spon­dent for the Rocky Moun­tain News when the Denver-based news­pa­per pub­lished its final edi­tion Feb­ru­ary 27, 2009. He was a dis­placed jour­nal­ist, but not for long. The […]

Who Needs Meetings? Online News Ventures Do

By Susan Older Founder, Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists I real­ized quite recently that I’ve been miss­ing out on some­thing that should be fas­ci­nat­ing: TimesCast – a daily video fea­ture on The New York Times site fea­tur­ing inter­views with writ­ers and edi­tors cov­er­ing hot sto­ries of the day and snip­pets from meet­ings of senior edi­tors dis­cussing what should go […]

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, of […]

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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]

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