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.

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 […]

Debunking 5 Myths of Entrepreneurial Journalism

By Jeremy Caplan, Poyn­ter Online Entre­pre­neur­ial jour­nal­ists spot the seeds of start-ups where oth­ers see rem­nants of the news industry’s retreat. Ear­lier this month, I worked with 19 forward-looking journos who con­vened at Poyn­ter to get a jump­start on their new micro-businesses. One nar­rowed the focus of her niche news site for Fil­ipino Amer­i­cans, while another refined his […]

Jeff Israely: Lessons Learned in Year 1 of a Magazine Correspondent’s (Would-Be) Online News Startup

[Jeff Israely, a Time mag­a­zine for­eign cor­re­spon­dent in Europe, is in the plan­ning stages of a news startup — a “new global news web­site.” He details his expe­ri­ence as a new news entre­pre­neur at his site, but he’ll occa­sion­ally be describ­ing the startup process here at the (Neiman Jour­nal­ism) Lab. —Josh] I real­ized not long ago […]

  • Welcome to Our Community

    Susan Older
    Founder
    Dis­placed­Jour­nal­ists™
    and its par­ent company
    Real World Media™

        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]

  • Click on a tag

  • Archives

  • SEO Powered by Platinum SEO from Techblissonline