Context Collapse: 💰 How Journalists, Public Relations Folks & Marketers Can Thrive In A Janky Economy
Economy's weird, industry's weird, let's party: CC #246
In this issue: Helping your career move forward when everything’s held together with duct tape.
Welcome to Context Collapse, the world’s best comms newsletter. I’m Neal Ungerleider. I run Ungerleider Works and used to work as a reporter for Fast Company, write op-eds for the LA Times, and work as a senior copywriter for R/GA. This newsletter helps readers navigate the weird new world of media and gleefully ignores all the conventional wisdom about journalism, public relations, marketing, and advertising.
I’m writing this in Fall 2023. The economy is janky right now. You don’t need me to tell you that.
For starters, the US economy has its highest inflation rate in 40 years while unemployment is at one of the lowest rates in years. Some sectors of the economy like the trades are thriving right now, while 2023 has been an absolutely terrible year for tech, journalism, and advertising layoffs.
All of this means things are deeply, deeply weird.
But, if yo…
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