Reminder: Maynard multimedia fellow deadline

Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists: Apply by April 15 at 11:59 PDT to receive a mul­ti­me­dia edit­ing fel­low­ship from the May­nard Insti­tute at the Reynolds School of Jour­nal­ism, Uni­ver­sity of Nevado-Reno.

Underemployed dad tests “Rent a Journalist”

Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists: Under­em­ployed jour­nal­ist tries a new method — “Rent a Journalist.”

Rooted Austin: Just Follow Your Passion

By Logan Bra­man Spe­cial for Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists I’m a jour­nal­ist, but I don’t con­sider myself dis­placed. If any­thing, I’d say I’m a jour­nal­ist who has been set free. I, along with three co-founders, just launched the first part of Rooted Austin, a local news por­tal for Austin, Texas. We think it’s the best time to […]

CJR: Blazing Trails, Changing Paths

By Cur­tis Brainard The News Fron­tier, The Obser­va­tory — August 03, 2010 12:48 p.m. When Inves­ti­gate West, an inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ism site, sprung up last sum­mer after the vir­tual col­lapse of the Seat­tle Post–Intel­li­gencer, we called its founders—former P-I staffers com­mit­ted to find­ing a fresh mod­els for the news business—the “new pio­neers of the west.” Now, a little […]

Job Quest Advice: Take Your Skills with You

By Michael Gauger For nearly 20 years, I was a news­pa­per copy edi­tor in Mil­wau­kee, where I was born and grew up. But in the last few years, the Jour­nal Sen­tinel had been cut­ting its staff through buy­outs. In the sum­mer of ’09, a round of buy­outs didn’t yield enough cuts for the com­pany, and in […]

Knowledgewebb Launches Displaced Journalists Partnership with Free “Tech Savvy” Webinar

By Amy Webb CEO, Knowl­edgewebb Knowl­edgewebb is pleased to part­ner with Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists to offer com­mu­nity mem­bers a deep dis­count on its annual mem­ber­ship dues. Knowl­edgewebb offers hands-on train­ing, self-directed courses, ongo­ing webi­nars and more for pro­fes­sion­als work­ing in pub­lish­ing and small-business com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Need point­ers on how to edit an audio pod­cast? Want to brush […]

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 […]

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 […]

We’re Not Done Yet; What Shall We Do Next?

By Susan Older Founder, Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists We have a rapidly grow­ing, multi-talented Face­book com­mu­nity. What shall we do next with this ini­tia­tive? As one of our writ­ers, Melanie Kolden, pointed out on our site in March, we really don’t know one another. (Of course, we just started in Jan­u­ary.) We share arti­cles, links, and com­ments. But we […]

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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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