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# This is a Bad Time to be a Journalist If...
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2009/10/this_is_a_bad_time_to_be_a_journalist_if/
- Published: 2009-10-22T17:54:41.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:40:05.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Journalists

- **You don’t like change** – because change is all the industry has to offer you
- **You don’t have passion for your subject** – because people with passion are already talking about your beat on the web, and\* they’re more interesting\*
- **You want to do the job you signed up for five years ago** – because that job is history
- **You don’t like the readers talking back** – because they have innumerable methods to respond to your work, whether or not you have comments on articles
- \*\*You don’t like linking \*\*– because links are the new economy of content
- \*\*You want to decide what is important \*\*– because that power is firmly back in the hands of the public
- **You hate technology** – because it is the future (and anyway, the printing press and typewriter were technology back in the day)
- \*\*You have a narrow view of what skills you need \*\*– because the skills you needs are evolving all the time
- \*\*If you don’t like competition \*\*– because your competition is increasing every day
- **If you can’t listen more than you talk** – because if you can’t do that, you’ve never been a journalist at all…