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I find I’m generally suspicious of people who write primarily for lots of new media sites/blogs, with no strong personal blog. They are in the no-mans-land between staff writers at traditional media sites and bloggers. You can’t tell where they’re coming from or trying to go.
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Staff writers at old newspaper/magazines... ok Op-ed contributors/occasional freelancers in old media...ok Bloggers who guest on other friendly blogs...ok Shifty characters who hop from one vague new media site to another like they’re building an art portfolio 🤔🤨🧐
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Totally, but I’m not sure that turning a personal blog into an “asset” (lol) or like becoming a consultant are actually viable alternatives for most people. I’d rather just get $50 a pop and be done with it.
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I can’t believe $50 a pop is a viable path to survival. You’d have to get like 30 such per month to barely scrape by in a small cheap city, and most people don’t seem to get that much work
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Oh, it’s not. Everybody who does it either has a (usually unrelated/other industry) day job or is independently wealthy (mostly the latter, some the former.)
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