Most of the news coming out of the newspaper business is glum, worse than glum actually. Lay offs. Shrinking ad pages. Financial instability. Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Investors Service recently dropped their rating of New York Times debt because of the paper’s declining revenues. Imagine that, the Grey Lady a junk bond. But not […]
FieldReport.com offers new home and prizes for personal essays
Personal essays are fun to write and hard to sell. For every freelancer who places an essay in O, The Oprah Magazine or the Washington Post’s Style section or the New York Times’ Modern Love column, there are dozens with essay manuscripts sitting on their computer hard drives, waiting to make a sale. Which brings […]