Eating KFC with the Grandmaster

Media is brutal in Iowa

So far, 2019 has not been kind to journalist. The media industry has gone through a lot of layoffs and there are a lot more yet to come. This isn’t news. I just typed two sentences of obvious things.

My only full-time job in media was the nine months I spent working as an assistant editor at a taekwondo magazine in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The office was in …