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I think I just left news.

28 Friday Feb 2014

Posted by Meghan Frick in Work

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By the time there was a decision for me to make about leaving news, my mind had been made up for months.

On March 17, I’ll report to a 20th-floor office in downtown Atlanta, start my career in public relations, and leave a whole life behind. It’s completely what I want and there’s no part of me that wants to stay. I wouldn’t be doing it if that wasn’t true.

I started my first post-grad job a little over a year ago in small-town, print-over-breakfast news. When I started, I thought it was going to be forever. Not the News-Topic, not Lenoir, maybe not even newspapers, but I defined myself as a journalist. Completely. 

I first read Allyson Bird’s “Why I Left News” sitting in the office late at night. “I finally came to accept that the vanity of a byline was keeping me in a job that left me physically and emotionally exhausted, yet supremely unsatisfied…”  Continue reading →

A list of things to be grateful for.

06 Thursday Feb 2014

Posted by Meghan Frick in Life

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I’ve written these before, but it’s always worth doing again (and again, and again, and again). I’m also grateful that everyone who reads this is going to forgive me for ending the title of this post with a preposition.

So. I am grateful for… Continue reading →

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