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I first met Corynne Steindler on a crazy month-long journalism experiment in Russia.  For one month, we lived like foreign correspondents: running around with interpreters, meeting successful journalists, and scribbling long pieces.

Then, we all came back to New York City, where magazines fold every week and the blogging production schedule spoils your chances of writing longer stories. Corynne jumped into a new media job, gambling in a tough job market.

That bet paid off. Corynne receives a million unique visitors a month at Jossip.com, writing about the stories she loves.

She talks about the ups and downs of new media

Jason Boog:
As a journalist, what do you think journalists can learn from blogs? How do you interact with journalists at Jossip? How do you imagine blogging will influence your career?

Corynne Steindler:
I am very wary of referring to myself as a journalist these days...

You know, there are always people who will oppose a cultural shift or a regime change, especially if it means some 23 year old with a lap top and a mug of coffee sitting on their couch is being allowed the same type of access to expression and audience as a Op/Ed columnists who worked for 25 years before getting that column.  But I think there are just as many journalists who "get" blogs, who really encourage and applaud their place in current culture.

I guess it depends on what career I end up pursuing … it can be scary challenging important people at well respected publications I may someday want to work or write for.  

Then again, most media influentials today came from a place of reactionary writing that challenged the powerful institutions of their time … so, you never know. I just keep my bartenders guide close by and remind myself I'm lucky enough to have parents who will always let me move back home.