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Hiring managers, please, please, please, stop ghosting people
We can’t hire everyone who applies. But a little feedback and encouragement can help keep talented people in journalism.
I can’t stand that editor, journalists will tell each other over coffee or beers or while chatting in newsroom corridors. They never responded to my email asking about their newsroom. They ghosted me during the job interview process. They treated me like I was a nobody at a journalism conference.
Sometimes, those bad reputations are well deserved.
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