A post-layoff strategy for the future-minded journalist
These days my former colleagues and I are all making a living in journalism. We’re on staff at places like Gawker, Quartz, and ESPN: The Magazine. We’re writing regularly for Fast Company and New York magazine and Slate. We’re working on book projects and documentaries and zines. Unemployment is a distant memory.
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Wait, what? The author and a handful of her friends managed to get jobs at a handful of crappy publications that are read only by ambivalent, bored office drones so journalism is in a good place? The availability of jobs for people who are happy to react to press releases for a living or happy to write shrill, desperate click-bait means journalism is in fine form? And all this could be mine if I don't mind sucking up to everyone I've ever met on Twitter for a month or two? Sounds peachy, count me in!
#1 Posted by Mumbles, CJR on Fri 31 May 2013 at 07:47 PM
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#2 Posted by roger, CJR on Thu 13 Jun 2013 at 04:19 PM
The availability of jobs for people who are happy to react to press releases for a living or happy to write shrill, desperate click-bait means journalism is in fine form? And all this could be mine if I don't mind sucking up to everyone I've ever met on Twitter for a month or two? Sounds peachy, count me in!
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#3 Posted by roger, CJR on Thu 13 Jun 2013 at 04:23 PM