The State of Entertainment Journalism in 2026
Yes, it's still very much f***ed and we're all doomed.
“Journalism is Fucked and We’re All Doomed” is my ongoing column looking at issues affecting entertainment journalism writers.
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It's been a minute since we last checked in with where entertainment journalism is over the last five months and [checks notes] it's still bad. Very, very bad. I will say that, as a freelancer journalist, I'm making ends meet. Have I gotten less pitches accepted than I did at the beginning of the year? Sure. But that's both a combination of my own tenacity coupled with where sites are right now. I'm still getting stuff accepted and that's half the battle. (Watch me say that and then next month everything goes down the toilet.)
