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Online News Departures, Career Changes

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Departures? Yes, but...
1/4/2002 9:21:36 AM
Posted By: Jay Small

Just don't forget there are a few of us out here in the online news biz who left the industry (in my case more than once) and gladly came back. I found the rest of the world isn't necessarily more forward-thinking than media companies when it comes to the Internet. And I missed the healthy skepticism with which people of journalistic backgrounds viewed corporate culture, the dot-com hype and all those "next-great-things" that turned out to be "never-good-things."

Yes, the struggles for credibility, market share, true understanding of emerging media and (God help us) profitability remain -- but plenty of good people are staying in the fight.

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