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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just heard Ray Suarez interviewed on WAMU, and his story would make me nervous about entering the field at this point. He was SO well regarded and experienced, yet has had trouble finding a full time job. Of course he had ageism working against him also, but still...

I have not heard this podcast, but suspect it will go over his story similarly:

https://economichardship.org/2021/10/a-veteran-journalist-finds-himself-the-center-of-the-story/[/quote]

Working journalist here and I think the media industry Ray joined and worked for is long gone. For example, in his day if you wanted to be a radio reporter that's what you did and that's all you did. Audio production was the job someone else did for you. You didn't know or care about inverted pyramid because that's not what medium you worked in. Print journalists didn't have to or bother to learn about writing for radio. And so on.

Younger journalists tend to have a breadth of skills that translate to many mediums along with a depth of knowledge about specific beats. So a politics reporter might be writing for the website, writing a script for a podcast or video, shooting and editing video, using SEO to try and maximize for search, leveraging social media to create conversations and engage with audience (not just share links to their stories), and they do all of this without an attitude that they have to create content for several platforms. They get they have to find the audience and meet them where they are these days.

A lot of older journalists have an attitude if they have to do something other than the job they joined the field to do 20, 30, 40 years ago and feel like it's someone else's job to take the work they made for the platform they care about and somehow spin gold out of straw with it for the other platforms. [/quote]

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