Losing young employees

Pulitzer Wannabe · May 17, 2008

fremont said:

Det. Jimmy McNulty said:

one of the most demoralizing aspects of the paper i work at is that the "management identifying young stars to keep around" is an absolute pipe dream. at least 80% of the newsroom is hometown folks (100k metro area) and i'd say at least 50% have been there 12+ years. unless there is some serious hoarding going on among certain positions, people are willing to put up with the crappy wages because it is home, thus, no need to promote anybody.
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Just curious, who's the youngest one of the local bunch?

From what I can see there aren't a whole lot of kids coming out of school wanting to do this kind of stuff for a living anymore.
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You serious?

Every kid I meet thinks he's the next Bill Simmons or Deadspin guy.

fremont · May 17, 2008

Pulitzer Wannabe said:

fremont said:

Det. Jimmy McNulty said:

one of the most demoralizing aspects of the paper i work at is that the "management identifying young stars to keep around" is an absolute pipe dream. at least 80% of the newsroom is hometown folks (100k metro area) and i'd say at least 50% have been there 12+ years. unless there is some serious hoarding going on among certain positions, people are willing to put up with the crappy wages because it is home, thus, no need to promote anybody.
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Just curious, who's the youngest one of the local bunch?

From what I can see there aren't a whole lot of kids coming out of school wanting to do this kind of stuff for a living anymore.
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You serious?

Every kid I meet thinks he's the next Bill Simmons or Deadspin guy.
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Well, yeah. The two dailies in my native county (both of which I had full-time gigs with at one point) had a bunch of local lifers back in the 90s, but by the time I came in (1999-2000) it was it. Nobody new and local on the sports side has written for any local daily since. Now the smaller of those dailies is history and the other has a bunch of transient short-timers who will be out the door within a year or two for bigger and (maybe not so) better things. Most of the high schools don't even have proper student papers anymore.

Nobody wants to be Bill Simmons anymore, I guess.

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