Former VOA Journalists Launch 2nd Careers Through American University Entrepreneurship Program
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Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 20
Former VOA Journalists Launch 2nd Careers Through American University Entrepreneurship Program
1 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 20
Summary
Former Voice of America journalists are pitching business ideas after losing their jobs, using an American University program to build second careers as entrepreneurs.
American University created the program specifically to help displaced VOA staffers translate reporting, language and subject-matter skills into new ventures.
Kasim Kashgar — a Uyghur dissident, international journalist and prospective memoirist — spent the summer in Washington classrooms as part of that shift.
The effort shows how laid-off media workers are turning to entrepreneurship as a practical fallback when traditional journalism jobs disappear.
How do former international reporters translate their investigative skills into successful startups after their media careers were abruptly dismantled?
With courts ordering VOA's revival but trust shattered, will these displaced journalists return to the newsroom, or is their pivot permanent?