The Thomas Ritchie Interview

Thomas Ritchie believes that those we work well in the journalism world, can translate and successed in the marketing world.

Thomas is from Iowa and went to College at Mt. Marty. Thomas worked as a former journalist for Argus Newspaper. Thomas covered some interesting topics, he even interviewed a 100 year old man. He worked their for several years until he came to this sudden realization, journalism is dead.

Thomas says that those in journalism could do well in the marketing world. He says that the pay is better, and their is much more opportunities to grow.

Thomas went on to say, “a journalist and marketer have many similarities, a good journalist is almost marketing to their audience”.

In a world were most your news is heard over twitter or some influencer spilling you the latest topic, the journailsm world is on it’s last legs. News that you hear rather it be truthful or not is almost always there some digital device leaving newspaper to the dust.

Thomas advice to journalist trying to make it is to “take a stand, stand by it, and publish it”. That same advice can be translated to the marketing world, create a market, stand by it, sell it.