Archive for July 31st, 2009
My article from City Journal’s Summer 2009 issue called “Digital Wretches” is now up online. It’s about the rise of online-only newspapers and how the local marketplace of ideas in America’s cities is still alive and well. The difference? Well, no one should bank on a staff job anymore. You can read the piece here. You can also listen to me read the story for a podcast (there is currently a link on the City-Journal.org homepage).
Interestingly, Forbes.com seems to have picked it up in its entirety, complete with my picture taken from this website. I wasn’t aware that Forbes and City Journal had this sort of sharing relationship — one of the tricky new things we’ll have to figure out in the digital media world. On the bright side, I guess it’s nice to say I’ve now written for Forbes!
Laura Vanderkam is the author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (Portfolio, 2010) and Grindhopping: Build a Rewarding Career without Paying Your Dues (McGraw-Hill, 2007). She is a member of USA Today's Board of Contributors, and her work has appeared in Reader's Digest, Scientific American, Wired, The American, Portfolio and other publications.
Write to her at lvanderkam at yahoo dot com.