"My industry is hemorrhaging... the center isn't holding"

New York based "Olivia Loyd" shares her solicitude about the future of journalists. An extract from the Women's International Perspective blog:

A few weeks ago an email landed in my inbox from a former classmate who, by most accounts, would be considered a journalism success story. He was hired by The New York Times soon out of graduate school and has written for some of the most venerable titles in the business as a freelancer.

“I’ve been living very shoestring for very long," he writes. "I'd like to think that I've made a good run at freelancing. I'm 29 now, and coming up on the fifth anniversary of having moved to New York to make this work. I can't say this is the first time I've given thought to leaving journalism, but this is the first time it has been a sustained thought for a considerable amount of time… I built myself back up this year, but feel like I'm in the same dreary place."