A New York Freelance Journalist's Tale of Woe

Michael Luongo pens a heartfelt essay for Guardian US.

Think you have it bad? Any problems will likely fade into the fall sunset once you read Michael Luongo’s piece in Guardian US.

Luongo, an award-winning freelance journalist and photographer, details his mistreatment by editors as well as a series of recent medical mishaps that have spiraled him into debt. He incurred the first of two major injuries around this time a few years ago:

In 2014, I was beaten unconscious on New York’s 6th Avenue, while photographing the Halloween Parade.

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