Rob's article: 'Love your community and watch your revenue models do better'
By Rob Golub
I see a bright spot for journalism. Yes, I do, and today is not April 1.
There’s so much doom and gloom in our field today, but I know from experience that there is at least one path to help us out of the darkness. It’s community.
I don’t mean to diminish the pain. I’ve been in the meetings. I’ve told the daily newspaper reporter who needs a stapler to go look in unused office desks. I worked as a local editor, then chief editor, at a daily. I’ve been at magazines and a weekly, too. I’ve run an internship program for new journalists for about 15 years. Sometimes these bright-eyed 19- and 20-year-olds ask me about the state of journalism. I tell the truth, that things are rough, but I still believe.