Here are some things I found out this year. Some of them weren’t even horrible!
Here’s what I learned in my first five years in the workforce: Being a social media manager, or editor, or…
#Thank # You # For #Reading
2014 was the year that it happened, and yes, it means the formation of my #personalbrand. I’ve gone from “Jazmine Hughes who?” to “Jazmine Hughes, that girl,” with a bevy of…
At the beginning of 2014 I had published a grand total of four pieces for actual pay and two of those were high school writing contests. Three years out of my B.A. in Journalism I was calling myself a writer while making 99.9% of my income by waiting…
I stopped writing in 2014, by choice and by chance. My on-and-off relationship with The Wire, The Atlantic’s ill-fated news operation, finally ended at the beginning of the summer after four-odd years. I moved home from Toronto and planned to give myself what…
My first full calendar year in New York, the Big Apple, Broadway, baby! Here are the pieces I had published this year that still please me, that still tickle my pridebone even if just a bit.
I. Emails
The best things I wrote this year were emails.
Having worked in various freelance capacities for the better part of four years, there is a certain truth that I…
These were the top 10 stories published by Years in Review in 2014. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2014 by using the calendar at the top of this page.