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3. This feels like an article from 20 years ago... Journalism as I knew it died in the 2000's

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Mar 30, 2025, 03:08 PM

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I worked in a "real" newsroom 1996-99 and I saw the decline even more after I left. I got good freelance gigs until about 2013, then all the editors I knew who would throw me work were out of the field and my contacts dried up.

I moved into education and the private sector doing admin. So I've been doing the hustle without a set career for a while now. Maybe living in a small town with limited resources forced me to be more adaptable...

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