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Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by AD, Sep 16, 2021.

  1. superhater

    superhater Member

    And it's exactly why I feel great about landing back at one. Everything is so controlled/canned at the college and pro levels now that going back to preps was actually invigorating.

    That, and minimal travel is super appealing once you've got a family.
     
  2. Screwball

    Screwball Active Member

    Reporting on the trend? They're part of it.
     
  3. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Additionally, the people who thrive and advance in such a structure are mediocre sycophants who turn into company men/women and make life stressful for everyone else. Had an editor in one of the bigger chains a decade ago who was truly lousy at her job, but buttered up the right folks and moved her way up the totem pole, eventually becoming a managing editor at another paper.
     
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  4. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    I left journalism in 2016. I only wish it had been around 1996. I never thought I'd say that.

    But spending my last four years in a concrete cubicle next to the press as part of a design hub, a block away from the newsroom, having to pick up four pages in the A section for Sunday rather than concentrating fully on sports ... those were dark days. I'm just lucky I had some good people around me. And in retrospect, I should have read the writing on the wall much better.

    I missed journalism for about three days after it was over. Maybe three days.

    My second career is more rewarding, and especially more conducive to a work/home balance.
     
  5. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    You hiring? :)
     
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  6. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    You can type. Wow somebody on the civil service exam. Worked for me.
     
  7. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    You've read my work. I can barely type.
     
  8. Noholesin1

    Noholesin1 Active Member

    There was hardly a better experience than producing something really good and being able to grab a paper off the presses at midnight to see how it looked. It was a fabulous way to spend 42 years, but I'm glad I'm not a part of what the job has become. I'm also shocked I cannot recall the last time I held a daily newspaper in my hand.
     
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  9. Old Crank

    Old Crank Active Member

    This. A thousand times this.
     
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  10. Bud_Bundy

    Bud_Bundy Well-Known Member

    We get the Sunday newspaper delivered because my wife like the coupons. She'll be reading a story and comment on it to me. Inevitably I'll tell her I already read the story - or a version of it - online. I'm the same way, a retired newspaper lifer who is continually saddened by what now seems to be the norm.
     
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  11. Jesus_Muscatel

    Jesus_Muscatel Well-Known Member

    'Twas a great feelin', no doubt.
     
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  12. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Agree with all of this. I've been out of sports-exclusive sports journalism for seven years. After next Sunday, I'm moving out of journalism all together. Obviously, a lot has changed in the past 20-some years. It was a thrill many times, but it's been gone for a long time for me.
     
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