I should have been more specific that when I left Gannett, I was done with corporate journalism. I'm not against the field as a whole, but the job insecurity is just mayo on the shit sandwich of selling entertainment as news. The thing is, finding jobs through negative filters really doesn't narrow things down.
On the plus side, I've never had any interest in writing what someone else wants me to write. It's hard to start off as a columnist and then get news assignments.