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April 29, 2025
Morning!
We came across this NY Times article “The Gen X Career Meltdown,” and since it was directed towards “image makers” specifically in media, we wanted to share with our community. Honestly? We felt a pit in our stomach reading it, because we know how deeply the industry has changed. How many talented people have been laid off. And we feel sad that younger generations will never experience the way it was before (a mix of early days MTV meets SNL if you can imagine).
But instead of changing careers, as the article suggests, or being scared, we’re going to take a second to celebrate the folks who are building the media landscape 2.0.
We are constantly inspired by stories like Janice Min, previously Us Weekly, who is building The Ankler; ex-Netflix executive Lindsay Colker, who started Elevate PR; entertainment reporter Andrew Freund, who is spearheading a digital series for Waymo; ex-Vice executive Kamalii Kaina, building Prodigy a fractional production services company. Tricia Durrant who went from Entertainment Tonight to her own Good People Talent and worked on Hello Sunshine’s podcast; and Angela Peluso, who transitioned from The Talk to starting DayMoon Talent and booking for the Obamas’ Higher Ground podcasts.
The article hints that we’re scared of AI and jobs, but we’re probably just scared that our industry has been fractured into a million pieces.
At Interview Hub, we’re betting on two things
1) That the Gen X crew — the ones who built the original media landscape — will be the ones to shape what’s next.
2) That we come back together.
What do you think?
Tracey Raftery
Interview Hub
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