Stephen Janis is Baltimore’s Alternative Journalist
By Rachel McAthy, Journalism.co.uk August 11, 2010 He might be shadowing an apartment manager dealing with suspected drug dealers one day and discussing the policing of crime with veteran detectives the next. Everyday, Stephen Janis aims to be the journalist on the ground, covering crime and corruption stories missed by the mainstream. Janis is an [...]
Investigative Journalism is Alive and Well
I have to turn you guys on to Greg Palast’s reporting on the oil spill. It’s amazing stuff. After you read this piece, click on “home” on his site to see his other work. It gives me reason for hope — that our profession will endure. By Greg Palast I’ve seen this movie before. In [...]
Freelancers Welcome: Fellowships for Health Journalists at USC Los Angeles
By Susan Older Founder, Displaced Journalists Health journalists have an amazing opportunity this summer — to step away from the daily routine and attend a fellowship seminar July 11-16 in Los Angeles. The week-long session explores the intersection between community health, health policy and the nation’s growing ethnic diversity, as well as the role that factors [...]
AOL is Still Hiring Regional Editors
AOL is still hiring. If you are interested in any of the following positions, go to the AOL Careers Site, submit your application, and make sure to mention that Andrea Stone, senior Washington correspondent for AOL News, referred you. Then send a your resume to Andrea at andrea.stone@corp.aol.com, so she can pass it along and call [...]
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, [...]
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]