John Updike initiated a blogging firestorm in May, when he complained that blogs and web publishing will smash the writing profession into "a sparkling pod of snippets."On a seemingly unrelated note, a young writer named Corynne Steindler found herself stuck in a broken job market for writers last year. After wrestling with the cut-throat New York magazine scene, she landed a new media job--blogging over at the super-popular media and gossip blog, Jossip.com.
Here's my point: it's fine and dandy for a writer at the end of a dazzling career to criticize this industry shift, but we fledgling writers aren't so lucky.
If we want to eat, we have to cope with the Big Changes going on around us.
That's why we will spend the rest of the week talking to Corynne in my deceptively simple feature: Five Easy Questions. In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a serialized set of weekly interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing...
Jason Boog:
How in the heck did you end up in the Jossip-editor spot? You studied journalism at NYU, did that prepare you for this job? What else prepared you for the job?
Corynne Steindler:
How I ended up at Jossip is a great example of the "right time right place" aspects of this industry...
Going to journalism school in New York definitely familiarized me with the little nuances that make this city what it is. I think working as a waitress, nanny, shop clerk, PA, etc. when I was 19 and 20-years-old helped with that too.
Interning for Bonnie Fuller was probably what helped me get a foot in the door at a lot of places. People hear her name or see it on a resume, and they pay attention.
When a "blogger" job popped up on Craigslist, I thought, "Wow, I'll get to write all day and gossip about media – what could be better?" So I applied, David Hauslaib and I hit it off, and here I am...Want to know how it feels to edit a major blog every day?
Then tune in tomorrow for the next installment of Five Easy Questions for Corynne Steindler...
» Five Easy Questions: Corynne Steindler, Part One from ThePublishingSpot
John Updike initiated a blogging firestorm in May, when he complained that blogs and web publishing will smash the writing profession into "a sparkling pod of snippets." On a seemingly unrelated note, a young writer named Corynne Steindler fo... [Read More]
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