But stay optimistic, sure.

[newredshoes]

I am drowning in tabs yet again, and some of them feel too contentious to post on my RealName.com, which is a shame, because there's been a lot of great writing on journalism over the last few weeks, although most of it is about why we're well and truly fucked.

The Rest Is Advertising: Confessions of a sponsored content writer

What Is BuzzFeed, Really?

The Justin Trudeau Quantum-Computing Story Is What Happens When Social Media Shapes Reality

Semi-related: Watching the Woke Olympics

The Dark Side of Guardian Comments

Glorious aside: Being Blocked Is Not the Same as Being Censored

The Fight for the Future of NPR

Congratulations! You've Been Fired

The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans - "Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them."

A brief note from Nick Bauman after the Mashable cuts two weeks ago: "Talent is cross-platform. Many reporters are great on camera, or have good ideas for video stories. It's not an either/or."

Time to go... apply for jobs? Good jobs? Somewhere?

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