Copy Editor’s Lament (The Layoff Song) now on iTunes and Amazon!

My little journalism/economy ditty, “Copy Editor’s Lament (The Layoff Song)” has just gone on sale over at iTunes – here is the link. It’s also available on Amazon.com, and soon it will be offered on Lala.com.

If you haven’t heard it, you can listen free on my website here. And you can read a bit about the song and its origins in this nice Poynter.org article by Mallary Tenore here.

Finally, stay tuned on the imminent release of the Copy Editor’s Lament video, which is being created by star photojournalist Elie Gardner.

If you like what you hear, please spread the word!

Copy Editor’s Lament – the reactions

That song I posted Friday — “Copy Editor’s Lament (The Layoff Song)” –  seems to have touched a chord (pun intended) with copy editors and others in the journalism world. It’s been bouncing around the Net’s echo chamber, Tweeted and, at 7:30 p.m. Central Time tomorrow, it will be used as background music on a public radio report on the West Coast.

I’m grateful for all the fuss, of course, but I want to point out that the attention — as well as the song itself — originated with the pain most of us in the news business have been feeling, especially those who have lost their jobs.

So I’m not celebrating much.

I am, however, confident that together those of us who report the news will find creative new ways of getting it to readers, viewers and listeners. And, as this blog’s very mission indicates, I believe that music can and ought to be a part of that.