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What's your advice to young journalists? I've been at a local paper for two years now and am looking at what my next moves may be, but the market is discouraging from my perspective - it seems like the NYC/DC circles can be really insular, leaving those of us who aren't in/can't afford to move to big cities out of the loop, and there are always 50 applicants for every one open position. Please, I need help before I give up and go to PR.

Thanks for the quick response! I'm actually in a very unique position - we're a small daily in a northeastern region with a mix of small cities and very, very small towns (my beats have included three towns, at last count, with fewer than 10,000 residents, two of those below 5,000). And we're actually an afternoon paper with almost a complete lack of focus on digital in any way, shape or form from the top down, which makes it difficult to hone non-reporting skills in an increasingly online industry. Our main competitor, a much better funded paper, de facto controls the local digital market. So my situation's quite a bit different in a few ways with some major hurdles. I have some social media presence and built my own website, but it's rough going. I'm also a GA reporter, which is good for diversifying my coverage ability but bad for developing specific skills on any given beat.

For now I'm going to keep trying to put out good work (four clips in today's edition alone!) and keep the search going. Hopefully I can outpace the debt monster that looms in the distance.

It's fake news, there was a hoax that went around about a year ago touting a nonexistent ban on gardening in NZ.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/new-zealand-gardening-law-hoax

I was curious about this, so here's the setlist: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/kanye-west/2016/metlife-stadium-east-rutherford-nj-23fec493.html

Kanye performed on eight songs. Three were off Pablo (Famous, Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 2) and the rest were G.O.O.D. Music collabs (three from Cruel Summer, then Champions and Blessings).