By Ross Barkan
A month ago, I surprised a lot of people by
announcing that I was making an unusual career move: After a lifetime in
the journalistic trenches—including as a consistent writer for three
publications that had scaled back or killed their print editions or
both—I was running for a State Senate seat in the Brooklyn district
where I grew up.
I launched the campaign for a variety of reasons, many of them having
to do with my own frustrations with the political class. I’m not
writing and reporting like I used to, but I’m trying to hold bad actors
accountable in a new way. I don’t know if, 30 years ago, a more robust
news landscape would’ve kept me firmly in the reporter camp, but I do
know it can be a disillusioning time to be a reporter, particularly in
local news and especially in New York City.
Click here for the full article.
Source: Columbia Journalism Review (via The Empire Report)
No comments:
Post a Comment