Discarded Print Journo Tries to Adapt to the Scary World of Freelancing
From a tiny village in Spain, Christina Patterson has shared an essay that is at once wonderful and depressing. After ten years at London’s The Independent newspaper, she was recently and very suddenly given her walking papers.
Patterson is an overseas journalist, yes; but what she describes could just as easily have come from the forced-vacation keyboard of a Cleveland Plain Dealer vet or Gannett Co. goner. She talks about a couple of recent plays that resonated, hints that her exit from The Independent hit a high decibel level and gives a very good description of freelancing:
Since then [the firing], I’ve done what freelancers do.
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