Getting back in the business journalism game

Leena Rao, a former TechCrunch managing editor who has been with Google Ventures, writes on Medium about why she is returning to business journalism by accepting a job at Fortune as a senior writer.

Rao wrotes, “I realized I really missed the Game.

“The Game is the playing field for writers. It’s where you relentlessly search for and follow stories, where you spend countless hours agonizing over a story, where you beat yourself up when a competitor gets the story before you. It’s where you sometimes only have minutes to get a story up on the site, and your heart feels like it is leaping out of your body as you hit publish and update. Stories keep you up at night, but the best feeling is when something comes together in your mind in a single moment.

“The Game can be a very dark place where you question whether you are actually good at the sport. Everyone is cynical and optimism is scarce.

“But, then the moment you actually are able to tell an amazing story that touches people’s lives or makes them think in a way they did not before, it just brings you back in.”

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