Look to the East

I live in Chicago, where I’ve worked for about five years now. Posting’s been slow this week because I’m in Philadelphia, giving my hometown job market a shot while staying with my parents.

My sister is interviewing this week, too, so I find myself handing out interview advice to her about things like how to politely indicate you will not answer an inappropriate question, how to find out what’s wrong with the company or office and what kinds of questions to ask to show you’re really interested.

Turns out the Philadelphia Inquirer just eliminated some Sunday sections, I learned this weekend, but I’ll go take a look and introduce myself anyway. Ditto for the People’s Paper, whose tabloidy style might better suit my writing anyway.

The media market’s weird here, too, though the news is a blast here with a new mayor, ridiculous homicide stats, chronic malaise at the child welfare department and all kinds of TV reporter drama. Inky has relatively new ownership but also a couple of writers I particularly enjoy. When I think about the sources I’d have in this city thanks to an extensive network of relatives who do all sorts of things in life, I begin to believe I’d be stupid to report anywhere else.

Fingers crossed.