Adam Penenberg Has Fun with #AdviceForYoungJournalists

Media vet hijacks hashtag to comment on the current state of far too much Web journalism

AdamPenenbergTwitterProfilePicWe got a good laugh out of the way author, NYU prof and media vet Adam Penenberg (pictured) tackled the trending hashtag: with serious deadpan. Never mind that a lot of his gag advice seems perfectly tailored to the part-time pay scales, home offices and no-health-benefits environs that await many of today’s young truth seekers, post-graduation.

Here are three of Penenberg’s upside-down pearls:

Copy/paste, don’t check facts, go on junkets, accept gifts and let Uber buy you dinner/drinks at Gramercy Tavern.

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