Bill Bennett
Bill Bennett
The end of an era
My last story on NZBusiness magazine.
There will be an online edition, but the print version has finished and so has the budget for freelance journalist.
25 years ago I was in a bar with an older journalist discussing how the internet would affect us. He said the demand for journalists would die. but that the new industry would “see us out”.
I was less optimistic. Apart from anything else, I had longer to go. He was about ten or 12 years older than me and passed away a few years back.
He was right, the industry did see him out. Just about.
Me? I’m not so sure. Technically I’m close to retirement, but traditional journalism barely makes up a quarter of my income now. If another publication closes, that’ll more or less be it.
Si Dawson @billbennett Ugh, that so sucks. Any idea where to from here? I guess it's a forced transition into other things. Stressful, I imagine :/
felix @billbennett sorry to hear this. Especially in light of my comments the other day. You've certainly changed my thinking.
Carl B. Latro @billbennett I was struck by you saying a little while back that you'd never learnt to program, "and had never looked back". Maybe now's the time to learn, before it's too late?