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How to actually leave journalism?

Reddit r/Journalism·u/Real-Bell-1252·about 1 month ago
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How to actually leave journalism? The comments I see on posts about this topic never seem to address the logistics. People will say ”I left and do X now” with very little information about how they came to do X. Personally, I haven’t had any luck trying to transition away from journalism. I haven’t been applying as much as I should be, I’m burnt out, but even finding positions worth applying to is not the easy task people make it out to be. I’ve been aiming at comms jobs but I either get tossed out very early on, not even getting a screener interview, or I make it to the final round and get treated like an exotic bird the whole time — “Wow, your deadlines are THAT tight??” “So do companies ever pay you to write nice things about them? Because we don’t like that kind of thing.“ — only to be told I wasn’t chosen because my experience wasn’t a good match. Then later I see they hired someone with an all-comms background.…

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