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), [...]
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 [...]
Knight Workshop/Fellowship for Journalists in Transition
By Susan Older Founder, Displaced Journalists February 10, 2010 The Knight Digital Media Center, which is associated with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, will offer three free workshops this spring – one for independent journalists, and two for multimedia journalists. These are fellowships and you must be accepted to attend. Capacity is limited, but [...]
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 [...]
« go backWelcome 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]