Why I’m Not Interested in Getting Back Into Journalism Here on Substack
An explanation.
There was a time when I worked as a journalist. I was, for the most part, a young man, although I did make an encore appearance in my hometown newsroom about a decade ago for about a year and a half before returning to education.
A Writer's Biography, Volume II, Part 5: My time in journalism
Last week, I met with an acquaintance at my house. The guy, Dale, was picking up some old files from me for a writing project that I was dropping and he was passing on to another writer. As I asked about the writer, I learned that he'd worked at the same newspaper as Dale had years back. That was more than a few years back, "before the buyouts." And just…
Since I joined Substack about a year ago, for example, I’ve run into a whole mess of journalists on the platform. I even subscribe to the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative, which is a group of Iowa journalists aimed at providing journalism about our state. I’ve recommended the page before, but I would absolutely recommend you go on their page and just start clicking on authors like Chuck Offenburger, Ed Tibbitts, Julie Gammack, Robert Leonard, and many others.
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I would have to say that I am a late bloomer as a writer, despite the fact that writing has been a part of my personal and professional life for at least 30 years. I was a journalist for well over a decade, but I never really made it as a big celebrity, even a regional celebrity in a state that becomes the center of the American political universe every…
It’s been about eight years since I walked out of the newsroom of my hometown newspaper, the Muscatine Journal, and did anything having to do with journalism. Recently I heard the company was in the process of selling off its old headquarters in the downtown and you could count t…
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