Editorial World - Issue 25: Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and lots of business writing opportunities
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How is everyone?? If you’re like me, you’re watching the incursion of AI into the writing profession with some apprehension. And AI is not just threatening our jobs and livelihoods. In his phenomenal essay, The Zen of Words, Matt Cardin does a philosophical deep dive into how our very ability to communicate our experiences will atrophy with the onset of AI-generated writing. He writes:
…a person should ideally be able to describe his or her thoughts and experiences in a literally endless variety of linguistic variations, all of them circling around and pointing toward the realities themselves and recreating in the mind and affect of the equally linguistically astute listener or reader an approximation of those very realities, thus encouraging a “see for yourself” transition to direct looking. Not to be able to do this, to lack the skills and sensibility to state and restate our experience, is to be locked away in a prison of muteness.
For AI to do all the articulating and thinking for us will result in, Matt argues, an ‘existential loss’.
Some more tech pessimism (or realism, depending on your view). Stephen Moore recently wrote I Kinda Hate Everything About Tech, and his opening paragraph is the most relatable thing I’ve read in a while:
I’m in a foul mood today.
It could be because my phone alarm decided not to go off, and I slept in. It may be because my computer chose violence, taking an age to load anything before crashing on me completely. It might have been that when trying to jump into my first video call meeting of the day, my headphones wouldn’t connect to my laptop. It might have been that when I was at the gym, my Spotify algorithm apparently took drugs and forgot who am I because the recommendations were terrible.
Then, in a wonderful rant that rambles through everything from hyperlinks to smart gadgets, Stephen vents about tech’s many shortcomings and unfulfilled promises. He’s not wrong.
Freebie Job Listings
Every week, I offer up some interesting opportunities that fall outside the scope of the paid listings:
POLITICO is looking for a Congressional Reporter to work out of Arlington, Virginia. No indication of salary.
Vanity Fair need a Media Reporter to work onsite in NYC. Salary: $70,000-$100,000/yr. This was first posted more than month ago but it looks like they still haven’t found the right person.
The Washington Post is hiring an Accountability Reporter – Climate & Environment, to work onsite. Salary: $97,400-$162,300/yr.
A rare opportunity. The Los Angeles Times needs a Film Critic to work onsite in El Segundo. Salary: $132,000-$165,000/yr.
The Seattle Times has an opening for a Government and Politics Editor to work on a hybrid basis. Salary: $77,700-$106,800/yr.