From there his itinerary led to the New York Times, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal and to Ziff-Davis, where he helped this pioneer of computer journalism figure out how to make a technical subject understandable to a broad audience.
If you read the Nieman Journalism Lab -- "whose goal is to attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age" -- author Ken Doctor focuses on the buying power and future financial muscle of millennial viewers.
Or does figure-skating journalism, like figure-skating judging, have its own folkways and methods of attribution, inscrutable to those who report on government, business or other fraud-prone venues?
As comedian John Oliver explained recently in this brilliant segment, nobody in journalism has figured out a sustainable formula for making money on the internet.
I wanted to quit before I succumbed, and spent a year talking to friends in journalism to figure out what was the best road for me to take next.
He would regularly take the pilgrimage to see them as often as he could, and when he decided to head to grad school for journalism, he figured he might as well do so at the place he'd previously adopted as a spiritual home.
The danger, it seems to me, is a voyage back to the future, the early days of American journalism, when public figures were routinely called liars, traitors, thieves, drunks and adulterers in newspapers.
I logged on as the me I was my senior year, a confused Ivy League political science major who thought she might want to go to law school but figured journalism might be fun, too.
When I turned 18, I shook the dust of that place off my boots, headed off to college for a while, failed at that, and then failed at a series of jobs and marriages until I drifted into journalism and never figured out how to drift back out of it.
Now, it's just a matter of him using his journalism skills to figure out what stories are being talked about, and then putting them on Medium.
