Neil Sloane’s Post

Attention all you unbiased politics reporters out there looking for some freelance gigs: Headlines & Global News (HNGN Inc) seeks exclusive interviews with headline makers — including policy makers, members of Congress, governors, mayors, celebrities — on national and local/regional issues. Ideally seeking someone who can set up and produce 1-2 impactful interviews a week (including a video component) that potentially generate 2-3 unique headlines each. Interested applicants should email to n.sloane@hngn.com and cc w.veale@hngn.com. Please include resume and LinkedIn along with a potential pitch.

Video obtained by HNGN.com shows closeup look as responders first survey the wreckage of the Dali and Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge moments after crash last night

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Nearly 300 ultra-talented media professionals were suddenly left out in the cold — not only without a job but also without any severance — by The Messenger one week ago. Please do what you can to help. https://gofund.me/53b4d6ef

Hi everyone - I am looking for a new role and would appreciate your support. Thank you in advance for any connections, advice, or opportunities you can offer. #OpenToWork

Hey all. I spent 10 months building a news team from the ground up at the unfortunately short-lived media startup The Messenger and can assure you its demise was not due to any failings on the part of that team or myself or the other fine journalists who worked in that newsroom. We grew a no-name brand (with an ill-advised name leading to scores of Google search issues) to 120 million page views a month by the end of our run and nearly 500 million overall. Despite the financial end result, I have no regrets about leaving a secure position as a veteran editor at a legacy media outlet (which I still love and respect and sometimes shake my fist in anger at) to pursue that effort. That’s because it afforded me the opportunity to meet some of the best and most dedicated news reporters and editors I have ever worked with. We came together — a disparate group with varying degrees of experience from across the country — and by the time they pulled the plug were a News team that could vie with any of the Goliaths out there. But the point of this post is not to eulogize — it is to let you all know that we are better and more experienced and battle hardened for the effort and that I have a slew of fine reporters and editors to recommend to any of you who are hiring, who know of someone who is hiring. I cannot name them all here. And, of course, I am looking for my next opportunity as well. Thank you Michelle Gotthelf for luring me into this messy adventure. I sincerely am grateful for your leadership, mentorship and friendship for two decades. My managing editor Michael Zennie and my breaking news chief Juliana Pignataro. These are my foxhole duo. I would in a perfect world build another team with these three but anyone who needs media org and newsroom leaders should be banging on their door. We had a team of editors who executed our vision seven days a week on such a high level (and hours beyond even the industry norm). Weekend editor Will Veale was a huge part of this organization's success; enterprise editor Aaron Parsley produced some of the best exclusive content of the past year, especially with reporter Steve Helling. Our morning editors Carlo Versano and Ann Butler got us off to a hot start on the national and global fronts each day and brought great insight throughout. Benjamin Feuerherd and Bruce Golding, who I have worked with for over a decade and still never cease to amaze me. Aaron Feis who can do anything, is such a great writer and reporter that we keep making him an editor because he can do it all. Our night crew of Margaret Weaver and Ryan Parker kept us hot and current right through to early morning. There's so many more, the two Chrises, Christopher Gavin and Chris Harris, Luke Funk, Dan Gooding, Mark Moore. And special thanks to Bernice Mitoko. Touch base with me for a list. And to my now former team, I love you all and wish you the best.