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Internet staffing

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by sportsed, May 24, 2007.

  1. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Yeah, and still get paid for 40. What the hell. And soon enough, it'll mean you get to work 65 hours instead of 60. And then, 70 instead of 65. What the hell.
     
  2. forever_town

    forever_town Well-Known Member

    Until April this year, I worked 80 hour weeks between two jobs. Dropping back to 60 hours felt like a vacation by comparison.
     
  3. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    We have one girl who manually cuts and pastes stories off our server and types in headlines. And she couldn't spell "DOG" if you spotted her the D and the O. Since my department often generates the majority of local copy for our paper, the majority of misspelled heads are ours. It pisses me off, and I'll fire off an e-mail and the problem will be fixed for a few days, then it happens again.

    It was better with the old system, where everything that was placed automatically was posted on the web at 2 a.m. The website was Mickey Mouse as all get-out, but at least we could control content.
     
  4. GravyTrain

    GravyTrain Guest

    sportsed. Here you go, I've worked at a pretty decent-sized paper (150,000 circ) and we don't have anybody who's job is specifically to provide online content. Instead, we've taken existing newsroom spots and turned them into an online desk, which takes short stories from reporters and puts them on the web and makes sure they have pictures, etc. No jobs have been added - just some shuffling...
     
  5. sportsed

    sportsed Member

    Sounds like there's little investment in adapting the offline product to the growing online marketplace. I wasn't expecting to hear that news organizations were swapping, job for job, each layoff at a newspaper for a new position on its website, but I figured there would be some growth. Are the small- and mid-sized papers completely surrendering their niche in the cyber-arena?
     
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