{"id":164,"date":"2008-09-09T16:18:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T20:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/?p=164"},"modified":"2008-09-09T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T20:21:24","slug":"my-new-writing-gig-with-pulp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"My new writing gig with PULP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some may have noticed I didn’t post a faith column this weekend. For those who haven’t had a chance to read the last one I did post, it’s because I’ve left my column at the Pueblo Chieftain<\/span>.<\/p>\n

For some time, I’ve been a strong advocate for the need for an alternative press voice in our area, and three months ago, PULP<\/a> was born. It’s an alt-monthly for now, but once the funds are in place, there are plans to take it weekly. If you’re not familiar, the alt-publications are the tabloid-format free papers you pick up in restaurants, coffee shops and the like, such as Westword<\/span> in Denver and Dallas Observer<\/span> in Dallas.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I met with the publisher and she offered not only to let me have a political satire column, which I’ve wanted to do for some time, but she also invited me to become an associate editor, in charge of all Arts & Culture content. Since then, we’ve decided to add a Spirituality section, which I’m developing and which will debut in October’s issue, and eventually, I’ll oversee Singles and GLBT sections as eminently more prestigious but equally vague “Lifestyle Editor.”<\/p>\n

When I told the Chieftain<\/span> folks about this, they told me I had to pick one or the other, as they perceived PULP<\/a> as competition. Though I’m not sure I agree that a free alt-monthly with a circulation of 4,000 is competition for a subscriber-dependent daily with a circulation of 56,000, I have to bow to their wishes.<\/p>\n

So that’s why I’m done at the Chieftain<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I think the person who was most distressed by my decision to leave was my wife, Amy, because the column was great exposure for our church. But after two-and-a-half years and 127 columns at $25 a week, I was ready for a new angle on my column work. Since I’ve been a vocal proponent of the need for such a local media outlet, I couldn’t very well balk at such an offer.<\/p>\n

As far as how this affects my blogs, I’ll still be posting pieces I put together on theological issues, and with the broader scope of my new position, I may wax more political and even throw in some other things now and then. I am also still doing columns for Disciples World <\/span>magazine and occasionally for Worship Connection. <\/span>I’ll add pieces as I have them from the various publications I’m working with, so hopefully there will be some things of interest to those who do follow my work.<\/p>\n

For now, check out PULP<\/a> by clicking on any of the words linked to the site above, or by going directly to www.pueblopulp.com. For those who would like, you can subscribe to PULP<\/a> by mail for about $12 a year, or you can just bookmark the site and check it there.<\/p>\n

Take a look at it and please let me know what you think.<\/p>\n

Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some may have noticed I didn’t post a faith column this weekend. For those who haven’t had a chance to read the last one I did post, it’s because I’ve left my column at the Pueblo Chieftain. For some time, I’ve been a strong advocate for the need for an alternative press voice in our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianpiatt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}