The conversations I've been having with friends across media this year keep going back to the same idea - that of resilience, and not in the wishy-washy, self-helpy connotation of the word.
Instead of looking for another journalism job, these journalists are transitioning from a career into moonlighting. It might mean publishing two stories a year instead of twelve. But it's something.
What's changed is there is a lot less secrecy now around journalist-moonlighters. There's no longer any illusion that if you were actually any good, someone would have hired you.
The stigma around not being a 'real journalist' has lessened - the thinnest of thin silver linings. But again, at least it's something.
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