"I'll Be An Editor-In-Chief' Of...Something

Lesley M. M. Blume, writing at The Big Money yesterday, tried to tackle the question of the future of media. It’s not pretty. We all know the old models—starting at the bottom, as an editorial assistant or gofer and working your way up to editor or senior producer—are broken. But Blume argues it’s worse than that. She says even new-media career ladders aren’t that stable: “For the last decade or so, many young journalists cut their teeth at online sites and then leapfrogged into prestigious positions at magazines and networks…Yet what happens to this trajectory when the ABCs and New Yorks of the world simply aren’t hiring fresh talent, no matter where it comes from?”