[Ipg-smz] Not the greeting I was expecting ...

[David Needle]

Have to agree, writing for a vendor makes you .... drumroll please ... a
writer. Not a tech journalist.

There is some gray area. If, for example, you had something like Robert
Scoble once had at Rackspace where he apparently had free reign to write
about anyone he wanted, you could make an argument that was journalism,
though it's not like he ever did anything investigative. I would tend to
still position him as a writer / story teller.

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 2:15 PM Tom Geller via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
wrote:

> On 5 Nov 2019, at 16:13, Howard M. Cohen <hmc at hmcwritenow.com> wrote:
>
> To your last snarky comment I can only say that I am a full-time
> freelancer for ten years following thirty in the IT channel.
>
>
> The original post was about tech *journalism*.
>
> On your website (http://hmcwritenow.com/), these are the clients I see
> from the last month, and their apparent category:
>
> * Channel Mechanics (vendor)
> * Redmond Channel Partner (publication)
> * MDSL (vendor)
> * New Horizons Computer Learning Centers (vendor)
> * New Horizons Career Development (vendor)
>
> That's 1 journalism client out offor 5, 2 portfolio pieces out of 12.
>
> I'm not arguing that one can't have a full and rich life writing for
> vendors. But your current career, no matter how wonderful it may be, is no
> counterexample to the idea that David Needle is "one of the last tech
> journalists".
>
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