I was a writer at fishbowldc. Is this what it has become? Is this thing making money? Idkwtf is going on. I’m in LA now. I’m out of the DC bubble. Anyways if anyone here is a follower of the old fishbowldc could give me a rundown on what happened. I’m thoroughly confused. And curious.

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Never heard of it

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What does one do as a writer at fishbowldc?

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I was writing daily news roundups from around the industry and some dc journo gossip

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Isn’t Fishbowl a crowdsourced news creation and gossip platform? Why would there be a roundup - of gossip and workers venting? That’s like a roundup of all random posts on you choice of social media. That had already become stale when the next thread starts.

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It was gossip about reporters. Roundups of industry (media) news. Who’s losing their job. Who’s replacing them. Reporters are very catty and hate to admit that they love stirring shit up. FishBowlDC was one of the most read sites in the beltway, believe it or not

It is, as one might say, a dumpster fire. Weird that you left DC, but all of this discord is due to DC. Posts about good/bad employers has gone to, 'should I split my referral bonus with the person I referred?'. But heay, I've only been threatened with account removal twice. Maybe this will be the third. ☮️💙

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Gossip rags get what is due i guess

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