The road to work is paved with a thousand rejections. My quest to find a full-time job in the shrinking journalism industry. With the last throw of the dice, and after 20 months of searching and a thousand job applications, I finally secured a full-time reporter job. This event hasn’t just happened. This isn’t breaking […]
Due to cuts there will be no Part 4. Destroy the Free This article was originally only going to be two parts, but the ideas started flying like fists at a drunken wedding party – so here are some more solutions to the right old mess we find ourselves in. It’s clear from Part 1 and Part 2 that […]
The glory days of liquid lunches, cigarettes dangling from mouths and a good chance of a proper job are long gone. But creativity stands the test of time – so here are some more ideas that may help the ailing journalism industry. The Generation Game Whether the ideas presented here or in Part 1 have merit is […]
In shocking news today a journalist had opinions about the state of the industry. Look Who’s Talking What a nerve. I qualified as a journalist last year and yet have the temerity to offer views on how the industry can be saved, or at least improved. Before people start quoting Monty Python at me: “He’s […]
Conclusion to a critique. Where Were We? No need to recap, it’s all there back in Part 1 – where some of the top guns in journalism assured everyone this is a time of optimism. A good argument they offer is how much information we can now access quickly and, usually, for free. True, but like a […]
Some in the journalism industry believe we are experiencing a golden age. An admirable attempt to be positive and different, but it’s an argument that I cannot accept. The spread of despair is not the agenda here – only a realistic assessment of the state we’re in. The Happy Few So, who are the jolly […]