Print journalists are suffering through an industry-wide decline, though the Underground’s Writer Employment Division advises against taking the route of newspaper sportswriter Kevin Provencher, who was sentenced for starting… a prostitution ring.
Kevin Provencher of Manchester, N.H., claimed he started the “side business” of running a prostitution operation because of a pay cut at his job. On Friday, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and fined $5,000 in a Massachusetts court.
Ouch. I mean, if he was going to stoop to prostitution anyway, why didn’t he just write SEO articles?
Keep writing, Tom Chandler.
That’ll keep the crime desk in copy…
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I can’t remember if the AP Style Manual covered this kind of thing or not…
I have seen a lot of thick competition in this niche and even the best best do no get the jobs around. When I started around the initial impression was that this niche is high paying with less competition but it seems like everyone around is a journalist.
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For a minute there, I thought the competitive niche you referred was prostitution, not writing, though some journalists argue there isn’t much difference.
And journalism has almost always paid abysmally.