Do you work for NR pro bono? Wow.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1437108736561225728 …
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Replying to @maggieNYT
Wasn't about me, but as it happens, I wrote for free on the side for quite a number of years before I got a paying job doing this. I doubt I made $5,000 over the first decade I wrote on the web. You write for publicity; publicity gets you a paying job.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Publicity is not actually the reason most journalists get into journalism. But that is the view of many non-journalists who get into journalism.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
That’s your main motivation, it seems from this thread, but while people want to be read, “here I am!” is not the animating force for a large number of reporters. It just looks that way when your main interactions are Twitter.
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I was doing this for a full decade before Twitter. But I'd submit that even reporters who are sufficiently self-effacing that they don't care about recognition of their name still want their *work* to be consumed & to matter. Otherwise, they could make more $$ in almost any gig.
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