Why are there so many open business journalism jobs?

Victor Epstein, a former business journalist with Bloomberg, Bond Buyer and the Des Moines Register, writes about the large number of open business journalism positions currently on Gorkana compared to other journalism jobs.

Epstein writes, “The list below represents this week’s news industry job openings on the Gorkana website. There are 43 slots, but the mix of business jobs to mainstream jobs is upside down — like most of U.S. society since global monied interests hijacked our democracy.

“Thirty eight of the 43 jobs — a staggering 88 percent — are for positions that cover industry, legal affairs or technology or exist at publications devoted to those topics. These are beats and news organizations in which ethically compromised journalists habitually trade favorable coverage for access to news and newsmakers. Jobs where the milquetoast cowards who now pass for most U.S. reporters, columnist, and editors are more likely to rewrite corporate press releases and call it news, or serve as an apologist for a chief executive officer who treats them like one of their employees.

“Only four of the jobs on this week’s list are for non-business news gigs (*) and one of those is in Britain. The fifth job is actually a contest posing as a job (+).”

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