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A disturbing sign of the times

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Drip, Jan 26, 2010.

  1. Cousin Jeffrey

    Cousin Jeffrey Active Member

    This paper has had one guy, essentially, covering all of Chicago's pro teams this past season.
     
  2. Desk_dude

    Desk_dude Member

    Newspapers are more getting away with hiring people as contract who used to be staff members.

    The rules were changed a few years ago. It used to be harder to pay people as contract.

    No companies can virtually anyone on contract.
     
  3. Magic In The Night

    Magic In The Night Active Member

    Unless there happens to be a union contract in place. Makes these sort of things a lot harder to do because most of them have language that covers how many freelancers are allowed and what they're allowed to do there.
     
  4. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    They will run into problems when everyone the hire quits after a few months. That's why real companies pony up with the golden handcuffs.
     
  5. mb

    mb Active Member

    I don't understand why they keep losing people.

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  6. fishhack2009

    fishhack2009 Active Member

    Solid as hell.
     
  7. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

    How? You see any college football teams cutting staff?
     
  8. flexmaster33

    flexmaster33 Well-Known Member

    Not going to the above candidate...not in this climate...they'll find someone decent...unfortunately.
     
  9. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    They aren't looking at it as an internship. They want to pay a big leaguer minor-league pay.
     
  10. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    Oh, don't bet on that. You are just the kind of person most places are looking for these days.

    Especially now, this business is for the young -- qualified, not qualified, less qualified, more qualified -- it doesn't matter.

    There is little or no place for people in mid-career or older, anymore, who are not already in high-level management roles, or who are not already receiving columnist-level status or pay, and under the protection that such status/experience/pay automatically lends.

    This is/should be painfully obvious. It is also part of why the industry is becoming so fragmented, why standards are being lowered, why nobody cares about the differences between Tweeting and enterprise reporting, etc., and why people just want a job, any job, in hopes of surviving and keeping careers alive...as opposed to having what might be the vast majority of their adult lives rendered pointless before they have to start all over again at an age that is less than ideal for doing such things.
     
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