August 22nd marked my two-year anniversary as a News Reporter for The Escapist Magazine. Hitting the two-year mark at the end of my high school and adolescence has made me look back on my time there. I’ve also been asked a few times about the back story behind my joining of the team, and figured I could lay it all out in one memoir post.
The story of my time and many others at the Escapist begins back at Gamers With Jobs, a mature gaming forum with the funniest, most intelligent group of writers I’ve met online. The contributors to GWJ have gotten published in many of the major industry publications, including The Escapist.
I originally found the site via Slashdot, the web home of geeks everywhere, some three years ago. I came from Slashdot, but I stayed for the podcast, the now defunct Gamers With Jobs Radio, hosted by ex-TechTV producer Russ Pitts and GWJ Founder Shawn Andrich. After being a decently active poster, the site’s founders, Shawn Andrich and Sean Seands, announced the launch of the Press Pass, GWJ’s own game news site, and they were looking for writers. Having a lot of spare time during the summer of 2006, I applied.
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