Will write for food

My first year at Substack

In one of the newsrooms I used to work at there was a cardboard sign randomly tacked on the wall with some words scratched on it with a Sharpie. The sign might have been from an old joke, a staff prank or leftover from a mock street demonstration. The sign read: “Will Write For Food.”

Whatever its genesis, those four words may be the best summary or mott…