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Two senior editor jobs, Sporting News

Discussion in 'Journalism Jobs' started by jeffd, Aug 6, 2010.

  1. Cigar56

    Cigar56 Member

    This happens in all industries. In its heyday Microsoft was famous for talking with small companies and entrepreneurs about acquisitions and then stealing their ideas. Microsoft was so powerful that it forced the small companies to meet without signing confidentiality clauses. I am not suggesting Microsoft stole their concepts completely, but over time you would see variations of the idea appear in Microsoft products.

    As for Sporting News, I said in 2010 in this thread that no one should do all the work that Sporting News was asking for without at least a preliminary discussion. I think the outcome, in this one case, proves me right. Print publications, especially newspapers, have been getting away demanding free critiques for years. Critiques are understandable when a person is a finalist for a job based on resume content, reputation and interviews. But soliciting extensive markups and critiques at the start of the process is a bit much.
     
  2. mrbio

    mrbio Member

    He probably got what he deserved.
     
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