There's a second – arguably even more important – benefit to the professional-publisher-as-filter principle: authors of professionally published books instantly have more credibility when it comes to securing lucrative speaking engagements, journalism gigs and a whole host of other money-spinners for which knowledgable talking heads command top dollar.
I was too busy writing unpublished novels, doing journalism gigs, and putting holes in my arm.
"What was once one of the most prestigious gigs in journalism has become a daily slog" now that there's no downtime in the Trump era, wrote Michael Calderone of Politico.
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Who is teaching tomorrow's Adam Penenbergs?" "Well, we're trying," replies Penenberg, referring to his current gig as a journalism professor at NYU. "Of course," I say, "but we both know that, after they graduate, your students are going to end up at Associated Content, churning out shit like everyone else".
Arts journalism is a fairly low-stakes gig.
There may be a sub-rosa contempt here for the genre — he's a novelist, and journalism, well, that's just a gig.
Baker even achieves the holy grail of music journalism by attending the legendary Sex Pistols gig at the 100 Club, only to pop out in the middle for a natter with a mate.
Rather than clogging the site with secondary services, for example, it has made the app available to third parties such as the gig-listing service Songkick and journalism sources including Guardian Music.
