Jon Fine has been covering the Rosie trial for Advertising Age. He’s also dating the boss of his interviewer at Media Bistro. Because, you know, that’s how things work in the New York mediaverse. Here’s Fine on the realities of free-lancing, and how people get media jobs:
The grind of waking up on the first of every month and realizing that you need to make X thousand dollars appear by the 30th in order to pay rent, that’s kind of wearying. And around the time I was kind of freaking out about this, an old friend of mine said, “You should just find a staff job, like, if the media-reporter job at Ad Age comes up, you should take it.’ And then three weeks later I was calling my predecessor to get someone’s phone number, and I said, “What’s up?” And she was like, “Well, I just got promoted. Do you want a job?”