Beyond cheerleading about journalism’s future

Online journalism advocates are brimming with plenty of “can-do” optimism about the future of the profession, and for the most part I concur that better times are ahead. However, we’re in the midst of a very hellish present, with no way of knowing where the bottom of this transition period may be, and whether it [...]

More tales of journalists and reinvention

Some of the latest links from the world of journalists-in-transition, and the state of the profession as it relates to where they are in their careers. I’m trying to keep this forward-thinking, if not always as hopeful as I’d like to feel about where we go from here: • “What would I do if I [...]

Getting closer to where I want to be

I’ve been reluctant to say much about this, but I’ve been absent from regular blogging here in the last week or so because I’m nearing the launch of the sports site I’ve had in mind since I left my job nearly nine months ago. By the first of June it should be up and running, [...]

The big displaced journalists’ news roundup

I’m going to try something a little different here and offer a regular roundup of links related to displaced journalists and career reinvention. In light of the continuing butchery of newsrooms, there’s so much material that I’ve been gathering lately but that I’ve done nothing with on the blog, usually due to a lack of [...]

Another big newsroom farewell

Sorry for the gloomy tone in my last post; I just didn’t have it in me to blow sunshine up anyone’s bell bottoms last week. On Friday I cheered up quite a bit visiting with former colleagues who departed the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in the latest round of buyouts. Like my group’s farewell party in August, [...]

Fighting through the blues about the news

This is a post I’ve resisted writing. I’ve been in a funk lately, one of the few true periods of melancholy I’ve had in this new stage of my career. A couple of freelance writing opportunities that looked promising haven’t panned out, and they probably were never going to be as good as they initially [...]