I was asked what it is I actually enjoy about this journalism world, its form and practice. So I rattled off some answers: I like writing I like telling stories. I like getting a little bit closer to truth. I like focusing on different conversations. I love asking questions and learning. All of my interest [...]

Simply put, we build audiences. At the beginning of December, I left another role and promised greater details on what I would doing. Here’s a start. In the past few weeks, I’ve chosen a payroll services company, applied for tax status, requested a business operating license, closed an existing account and otherwise finalized the incorporation [...]

I’ve decided to step away from self-employment. I’ve spent the last year of my life freelancing, by some accounts, at perhaps the worst time to do so in my life and arguably the worst time in the history of journalism. After a meeting of the most influential media leaders in the region made clear no [...]

Americans aged 24 or younger could be part of a “lost generation,” says a new cover story from Business Week. For people just starting their careers, the damage may be deep and long-lasting, potentially creating a kind of “lost generation.” Studies suggest that an extended period of youthful joblessness can significantly depress lifetime income as [...]

I have at least three fairly different resumes stored in my Google Documents, ready to e-mail to editors, mentors, advisers or welfare agents. For Philadelphia’s newest admitted freelance journalist, it’s a must because I am never quite certain exactly how I am branding myself and for what sort of work I might be pursuing. How [...]

Google Reader I am back. Last month I returned from five weeks backpacking Europe and moved into a new home in Frankford, a neighborhood in lower Northeast Philadelphia. Somehow, even though I was travel blogging and video podcasting at WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com, my month-plus European tour was an Internet vacation (IV) for me. It was a chance [...]

I probably could travel forever. Traveling can be cheap. That’s something I relearned early on the European backpacking trip from which I just returned. I could freelance a bit, and continue out in the world. But I’m not. I came home and am on the prowl for more permanent work. I still had money in [...]

I am looking for a job. When I mentioned that yesterday to a neighbor, he asked for one of my business cards to pass off to a friend. I don’t have one. I didn’t want to spend the money. I never knew what to write on one. Being young and transient, I feel like my [...]

During recent weeks backpacking Europe, I have had a great deal of time to think about my future – mostly on long train rides between the great cities of Western history, Vienna and Berlin, Brussels and Prague. I want very badly the opportunity to write, to tell stories in a resurgent metropolis. Right now, I [...]

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