Hi Austrians, I’m into learning free-market economics for the past 7 months and obsessed with it. I’ve decided to become a journalist, and hopefully in the future, write from a pro-market stance.
I’m from India and there is no pro-market newspaper in India. Howdo you think I can go about with my ideas? Are there pro-market news media in other countries which I can work with?
Thanks in advance!
Hi, As a first thing I would recommend checking local legislation about becoming a journalists: in most countries this involves taking an examination and joining a government-approved organization. It’s usually a joke but it gives government control over who can become a “journo”.
Having said that I think the best (and cheapest) way to get started is put on a website with a few free articles written by you. A free-market view on the very particular situation in India would be most welcome and I think it could draw attention (surely from me, since your country is a “great unknown” for me). Then start looking around for local free-market foundations you may interest in your work, checking out if they are truly interested in advancing the free-market cause or just in being government shills.
Networking with people from your region would be a start.
http://www.ccsindia.org/ccsindia/ecatalyst5.htm
http://www.ccsindia.org/alss.asp
http://www.ccsindia.org/ccsindia/index.asp
Maybe be a good start… some of the links are old, but you can possibly use the old contacts and names.
There aren’t any pro-free market newspapers in the USA, either. The best is fake free market stuff like The Wall Street Journal or The Economist.
If you self-publish on a blog, you’ll be lucky to make a couple dollars per month. The good news is that if you’re persistent, you may build up an audience over time.
Freedomain (Stephan Molyneux) seems to have a decent web-based self-publishing business.
The good news about being in India instead of the USA is that your cost of living is lower, especially if you can attract readers in the USA.
Forget about getting a job with a mainstream media outlet and being able to tell the truth. That’s extremely unlikely.
Thanks a ton everybody! Good information.
There are lots of libertarian websites looking for content. There are lots of opportunities to write about markets online.
First become a journalist, then bring a free market perspective. It would be a lot more valuable to have a free market writer in the Times of India, than in some obscure magazine. If you become good at what you do, you can have the satisfaction of doing what you enjoy for a living, which is something we all aim to achieve in life.