The Importance of Freelance Journalism

There is such a thing as business reporting and there's maybe a handful of labor journalists throughout, you know, in these various publications. I don't think CNN has a labor journalist. The people who work in those verticals don't question the genre. It's just sort of seen as an axiom that, oh, we need to center the quote unquote consumer. But it's baked into the reporting genre to the professional norms.