How many per week?

I guess I should clarify. The blowjobs are what I call the bullshit, community based fluffy shit I hate doing and I'm pretty sure, almost everyone hates reading except for those mentioned in the caption or article. Hate 'em.

 

Don't blow anybody on the way to the parking lot.[/clerks]

 

I don't mandate any story counts in our quaint 36K shop.

I want the news covered. That seems to take care of it.

As for me, I don't write nearly enough, unless you count heds and the newspaper equivalent of tweets.

 

Better way to look at it is inch count.
My average inch count is about 150 a week with some weeks going into 200 plus and I've never had a week less than 100.
Normal production is one enterpise story every week, five stories off my beat, a couple of brights and a weekly crime roundup that is part of a larger enterprise package.
I think that's about right for a 40-hour work week.

 

12-15 depending on the week.

 

Hey, get back here.

 

It all depends on the paper. At some smaller weeklies, I seem the same byline 20 times an edition. (At least it seems that way.) I write about 5-6 a week on average. Sometimes more, sometimes less. More in the winter than summer usually.

 

24-30 seems awfully high no matter what kind of shop you're in, unless you're considering every two-inch brief a whole story. I'd figure three hours per story. That'd give you about 13 a week, less if you're doing other things. If you're at a daily, there are going to be days when you don't have anything in the paper. But you're always working the next one. Averaging two a day isn't unreasonable on either side.

 

Since August I've probably had a minimum of 11 items a week in the paper - some weeks have been closer to 18 - plus another five or six Web posts a week.

Now I'm covering the FCS playoffs, a coaching search and basketball, so there won't be any letup anytime soon.

But come May, I'll be reaching to come up with five articles a week.

 

And the bean counters who think that's ALL you should be doing, plus the bullshit "investigative journalism" that has nothing to do with your community.

 

Thanks for reminding me of the greatest of "Clerks."

 

I had to add this up but during football season, I usually write around 18 to 22 stories divided among the four issues of our various papers. Also included in that is laying out 8 to 10 pages.