With the death of the magazine I think journalists in Generation X or younger are bereft of any influential writing to call our own. Because of the flexibility of the internet, we just spend our careers experimenting with forms. Podcasts, explainers, YouTube essays, Semaforms, blog screeds, Buzzfeed quizzes, tiktoks, data interactives, whatever’s next. We’re more like people trying to stay relevant in Hollywood than people honing a craft.