Revolution.
(Yes, linking this again, because read it right now.)
Susie Cagle is a journalist & artist for Grist.
She has also written and drawn for the Atlantic, the Guardian, the Nation, the Boston Review, the American Prospect, the Awl, Truthout & many others.
Read her articles and follow her tweets on politics, policy, the environment, the economy, and Oakland, California, where she lives and documents the city's shootings with the team at Shine in Peace.
susie.cagle at gmail
interesting times.
She has also written and drawn for the Atlantic, the Guardian, the Nation, the Boston Review, the American Prospect, the Awl, Truthout & many others.
Read her articles and follow her tweets on politics, policy, the environment, the economy, and Oakland, California, where she lives and documents the city's shootings with the team at Shine in Peace.
susie.cagle at gmail
interesting times.
How Do We Make Freelance Journalism Safe, Secure and Sustainable?
“Mainly you really have to love writing and reporting. Like it’s more important to you than anything else in your life—family, friends, social life, whatever.”
— Buzzfeed reporter Michael Hastings • Offering advice to young journalists in a Reddit thread last year. Hastings, 33, died in a car crash on Tuesday morning. Despite his young age, he left a fairly significant mark on the journalism world, scoring a 2010 Rolling Stone interview with Gen. Stanley McChrystal in which the then-Commander of U.S. and NATO Coalition Forces in Afghanistan spoke negatively of White House staff. Hastings’ report sent shockwaves through Washington, leading to McChrystal’s firing before the report was even officially published. While McChrystal was eventually cleared of wrongdoing in the case, Rolling Stone stood behind Hastings’ article. Hastings’ death led many journalists to leave statements of remorse in the wake of the news, including his editor, Ben Smith, who said in a statement that “He wrote stories that would otherwise have gone unwritten, and without him there are great stories that will go untold.” (reddit thread via Twitter user @nbj914)
(via shortformblog)
: Politico editors are so defensive about newsroom sexism.
IC: I am sure you have heard the criticism that Politico is a tough place for women to work. Do you think that is a fair criticism?
JH: During our launch, we were starting from scratch—it was a tough place to work, period. Not just for women. The happenstance that the four co-founders were men was just that. It has become a better place to work. The place is now built for the long haul. I don’t view creating opportunities in a gender context. …
“I don’t view creating opportunities in a gender context.”
A website from which I once bought cheap prescription medication just sent me a promotional email for “National Splurge Day.”
I guess I can’t really be upset about the vicious thing my ex’s ex wrote about me because it is some months old and I am only just now seeing it and I was clearly never meant to.
Am I allowed to favorite it though?
“Imagine if we spent half as much time talking about the needs and challenges of freelance journalists as we do talking about “becoming your own brand.” Or imagine if we acknowledged in all the debates about new business models, how many of those models depend on stringers and freelancers.”
— Talking To Strangers: How Do We Make Freelance Journalism Safe, Secure and Sustainable?
(via melissa)
The 1860s Bar, Improv Everywhere Pranks People By Turning a Brooklyn Bar Back 150 Years
“Dude, they have, like, straight up my OkCupid picture.”
(Source: charlietodd)
@susie_c @darrylayo @mareodomo HAHAHA oh Susie. You are fighting all the battles at once. <3
— SOPHIE YANOW (@sophieyanow) June 17, 2013
Basically.
I hope so at least.
