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RE: Fear not, you can always get a job writing for AP
Subject:RE: Fear not, you can always get a job writing for AP From:"Wroblewski, Victoria" <vwroblewski -at- NECsphere -dot- com> To:William Sherman <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:57:37 -0600
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:43 AM, William Sherman
<bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>wrote:
> Like many, I read the Yahoo news each morning. Much of it is
> obviously written without an editor overlooking the articles.
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I know nothing of how any of the news wire services (do we still call them that?) but I do know from seeing local ads for part and full-time journalists for some Chicago area publications.... that $10 an hour contracting job might pay more. Reporting (of the print and not "a head on a TV" variety) has not paid well in a very, very long time. Unless you really have a passion, there are other professions where you can use your skills that offer way better paychecks. And it was bound to happen eventually... you start to get what you pay for.
- V (who originally studied journalism but moved to Tech Writing when I realized I wanted to live above the poverty line)
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