Displaced Journalists

A Gold Mine of Talent

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 [...]

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  • Welcome to Displaced Journalists

     

    Susan Older
    Founder, DPJ

        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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