Not the time for journalists to write their misery memoirs January 12, 2009
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , trackbackToby Young, who reckons four national newspapers will disappear during 2009:
“I conservatively estimate that by the end of the year 25% of my colleagues will have left the profession [journalism].
How will all these people earn a living? Some will go into PR – the traditional retirement home for ex-journalists – and those who are still young will retrain in the few areas of the economy that are expanding, such as debt collection. But the most attractive choice, by far, will be to become full-time authors. […]
My own contingency plan for when the axe falls has always been to write a misery memoir. […] However, it looks as though I will have to abandon this dream.
“The market for misery memoirs has tailed off,” says Liz Thomson, the ex-editor of Publishing News and founder of BookBrunch.co.uk. “The wisdom is that in a fairly miserable climate people don’t want to be made more miserable.” ”
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