IS MUSIC JOURNALISM DEAD?!

April 30, 2024

Hi CREEM Magazine,

Is music journalism dying? I'm a current journalism student worried I'm about to enter a jobless field. As of January 2024, Spotify, YouTube, Universal Music, Tidal, Bandcamp, and Amazon Music all announced layoffs. In addition, Pitchfork got merged with GQ and Soundcloud is up for sale. Please give me hope. What’s your take on the future of music? Is there a future? If it can’t be CREEM, where are the other flannel-wearing punks who wanna write flocking to?!

All the best,

Maxx Goodman

Considering that it took us a year to respond to this, we’d say music journalists are just very busy! —Ed.

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