Ludwig van Toronto is reporting that the Toronto Star will be significantly cutting arts reporting through buyouts and reassignments. Although this is certainly sad news, it comes as no surprise in a climate where media outlets have been cutting arts support for years and newspapers must change their business models to survive in a world of declining readership.
Rather than bewailing this development on social media, get those blogs going. if you think it is important that arts journalism survives, you need to start your own blog and stake out a permanent presence on the internet. The gatekeepers are largely gone. Never have the barriers to entry in the arts writing world been as low as they are now; with a bit of work setting up a website and some finessing of your social media circle to develop followers, you too can be part of the meaningful commentary going on in the arts.
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