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“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to play of the imagination is incalculable” – Carl Jung.
At the Online News Association annual meeting in Boston last month, I participated on a panel “If I were in charge, I’d _____.” My fill in the blank was make journalism fun. Robert Quigley covered the panel in a post on Old Media/New Tricks. Craig Kannalley created a Storify post on the session.
I’m passionate about making journalism fun. That’s because when I started in this business 22 years ago, I had a blast. I loved covering the news even though I made poverty wages and I had to moonlight as a bartender to make ends meet.
Now I’m in a “back to the future” moment again. I love being an online journalist and entrepreneur blazing new trails in the pixelated news landscape.
Once again, I’m making poverty wages. But it doesn’t matter. I’ve learned so many new skills in the past couple of years that I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. This is what I’m up to these days.
So my message to change this business is to let journalists do what they do best: tell stories and have fun.

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