Around this time 10 years ago, Christopher Wink emailed me and our pal Sean Blanda. We had all worked with one another at our college newspaper.

“Was thinking of hosting a bit of a young freelancers session tomorrow night at my place,” Wink wrote.

After graduating in 2008, we entered the journalism job market at perhaps the worst time in the industry’s history: The print news business was being ripped apart by digital media and was soon to fade even faster thanks to a historic recession. So, we freelanced and tried to apply for news jobs that remained. We wrote and wrote and did what we could to stay afloat, what amounted to $30 at a time, or if we were lucky to land a bigger feature, $150 at a time.

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