I'd say that's accurate. I didn't really know what I would do. I did have the opportunity to try a few different newsrooms while I was in school, as minor internships, and it was really disheartening.
Obviously, getting into those newsrooms was a wonderful experience for a young reporter, but you instinctively got the sense that things were more chaotic than maybe they had been in the past. Morale among reporters was not high, so it quickly got everybody in the program thinking that if the jobs were scant and few in what we always thought of as the typical journalism outfit, what else was out there?
There were a few alternatives. Some people in my class are at outfits like VICE Canada. Obviously The Tyee is a home for a few, but the options were fewer than I thought when I entered school.