Fifteen percent of BuzzFeed’s employees, including dozens of journalists, are losing their jobs. Credit Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

I’ve toiled in this business for nearly 20 years, and even in the best of times it has been a squeamish and skittering ride, the sort of career you’d counsel your kids to avoid in favor of something less volatile and more enduring — bitcoin mining, perhaps.

(Farhad Manjoo, “Why the Latest Layoffs Are Devastating to Democracy,” NYTimes, 1-30-19)

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