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What news organization do you work for?
After recently accepting a buyout offer from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (ajc.com), I am reinventing my career as a Web-based journalist. Currently I am freelancing for Basketball Times, Basketball State (bbstate.com) and Blue Star Basketball (bluestarbb.com). I am also blogging about the fate of mid-career journalists, and those out of newsroom environments, in the digital age.
Which of these best describes your day job?
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About Me:
I was a special projects editor and sports producer for ajc.com and a sportswriter during my 19 years at the AJC. While the newspaper industry is undergoing major upheaval, I remain bullish on the journalism profession and the promise of doing the news on the Web. I want to help print-oriented journalists embrace digital culture. That is the key. My motto is "If I can do it, you can do it."
Blog:
http://inkdrainedkvetch.wordpress.com
LinkedIn Profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/wparkerajc
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/wparker
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504754219

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Hopeful, but daunting prospects for the post-newspaper tribe

The American Journalism Review spoke with a number displaced journalists in a fascinating piece just published entitled "Is There Life After Newspapers?" and discovered that many of them are relatively pleased and fully engaged in new careers and lives. Even as they shake their heads at what's happening to the newspaper industry they left behind.

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Posted on January 30, 2009 at 11:32am —

Wendy Parker

A 'Plan B' for journalists -- before they need it

Judy Stark, a former homes and gardens editor at the St. Petersburg Times and my classmate from the Poynter Institute's first "Standing Up for Journalism" workshop, has compiled a terrific guide to prepare for the Great Beyond. Here's Part I of her Journalists' Survival Guide on what to do before the ax falls. Part II is devoted to… Continue

Posted on January 28, 2009 at 1:52pm — 1 Comment

Wendy Parker

It's time for journalists to embrace the Web, or else

I'm not big on New Year's resolutions or "goal-setting" any time of the year but one of my abiding passions is to help fellow mid-career journalists, those of us who come mainly from a print background, to get busy with the Web. Especially in these times. So I've inadvertently come up with a resolution after all.

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Posted on January 5, 2009 at 1:10pm —

Wendy Parker

Rediscovering the joy of journalism

In spite of a terrible economy that probably will grow worse, and as the newspaper industry continues to implode, I may have reached something of a tipping point in my evolution beyond the newsroom. One reason is time -- it's been almost four months since I left it. Another is that there are so many of us going through this experience, and we're reaching out to one another.

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Posted on December 18, 2008 at 3:30pm —

Wendy Parker

Eyeing journalism's future, unblinkered

I have taken comfort in a post by a former newspaper editor who recently quit rather than make company-ordered layoffs and who has offered some useful suggestions for jobless journalists. While I understand his first piece of advice -- don't read such things as "the mediContinue

Posted on December 10, 2008 at 11:48am —

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At 11:19am on July 9, 2008, Paul Conley said…
Hi Wendy,
I just saw your comment on Ryan's blog and wanted to introduce myself.
I hope you're enjoying Wired Journalists as much as I am.
 
 

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