There was a time when I worked as a journalist. I was, for the most part, a young man, although I did make an encore appearance in my hometown newsroom about a decade ago for about a year and a half before returning to education.
Since I joined Substack about a year ago, for example, I’ve run into a whole mess of journalists on the platform. I even subscribe to the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative, which is a group of Iowa journalists aimed at providing journalism about our state. I’ve recommended the page before, but I would absolutely recommend you go on their page and just start clicking on authors like Chuck Offenburger, Ed Tibbitts, Julie Gammack, Robert Leonard, and many others.
It’s been about eight years since I walked out of the newsroom of my hometown newspaper, the Muscatine Journal, and did anything having to do with journalism. Recently I heard the company was in the process of selling off its old headquarters in the downtown and you could count t…
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