Where I’m coming from
I’ll spare you some of what you can read by going to the “About” page of this site, but here is some info to help you see why a blog like this exists.
In journalism school, I learned how to be a reporter. In the field, I’ve been a sportswriter. An award-winning college sportswriter, actually. But through my last year of school, I began to sense just how hard it might be for me to get a job after graduation.
Then this semester, I learned that basically nobody is hiring because nobody knows where journalism is going. Even the Gray Lady has had to make major layoffs. The only papers that seem to be moderately successful are either funded by erratic millionaires or are simply a print version of the Associated Press wire.
And in class I’ve been told I am the one who’s going to have to figure it out. Well, me and my recently-graduated peers out of J-schools across the country. So I took as many technology-based classes my last year, and even took a class called “writing for online publication” in which I learned how to blog effectively.
Though this particular post is breaking a few of the “commandments” I learned in that class, I have become OK at blogging. In fact, I’ve done it “professionally” for a few mainstream sports news outlets (one with some nominal pay, even).
And now, as is the theme of this blog, I am unemployed but still looking. So I’m going to try and chronicle the news industry and see if it ever comes out of it’s slump, as long as practice my reporting skills.
