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“Everyone, especially my former colleagues, thought I was crazy to walk away from offers at established publications to work on this thing that no one had ever heard of. But to me, there wasn’t great job security anywhere; it seemed just as safe to strike out on my own as it would be to take a full-time job where I could be laid off at any minute. Also, I couldn’t see a newspaper wanting to support the kind of coverage that I cared about, because it wasn’t particularly commercially viable.” —
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Elizabeth Green,
Gotham Schools
