``mojo''

[Tucsondriver]

That's what PE post calls new opening for ``mobile journalist'' who'll write, shoot video and still shots and sell fish tacos... Sounds like an intriguing experiment. Hats off to PE for imaginative thinking, I say.

http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=923633

 

[dooley_womack1]

That job's my bag, bay-bee!

 

[deskslave]

Not that imaginative. Gannett's been doing it for several years. Pretty sure the basic model is pay the reporter less than a normal reporter, and require him to put thousands of miles on his own car, with ****ty reimbursement.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/03/AR2006120301037.html

So Myron sits in the parking lot, hunched over, keeping one eye out for threatening vagrants, and peers through his steering wheel to file a story on his laptop, perched on his knees. The workplace is, at best, ergonomically challenging.

The event he just covered? The signing of a fundraising calendar for the local chamber of commerce featuring the Hunks of North Fort Myers. The event was held inside a gym beside a Winn-Dixie in a strip shopping center.

...

Thirty minutes later, sitting in his car with a sense of relief, he has written a short story, cropped one digital picture, written a caption, uploaded it all to the Web and linked to a previous story he'd written on the calendar fundraiser. Traditionally, such a story would barely rise to the level of a newspaper's weekly community insert. Yet this is the third story Myron has written on the calendar.

 

[Angola!]

Damn, I thought this thread was about the Permian Panthers.

 

[buckweaver]

I'm all for jacks- and jills-of-all-trades in any field (I consider versatility to be among my strongest traits in the workplace), but this is just asking for mediocrity.

One expert in reporting/writing and one expert in photo/video > three "mojos" who aren't great at anything.

 

[Moderator1]

Mobile Journalists? That's what they were called at my old paper. The old bureau folks, the one's who didn't live in the area.

 

[Ace]

Mobile Journalists? That's what they were called at my old paper. The old bureau folks, the one's who didn't live in the area.

Did they live in Alabama?

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Not that imaginative. Gannett's been doing it for several years. Pretty sure the basic model is pay the reporter less than a normal reporter, and require him to put thousands of miles on his own car, with ****ty reimbursement.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/03/AR2006120301037.html

So Myron sits in the parking lot, hunched over, keeping one eye out for threatening vagrants, and peers through his steering wheel to file a story on his laptop, perched on his knees. The workplace is, at best, ergonomically challenging.

The event he just covered? The signing of a fundraising calendar for the local chamber of commerce featuring the Hunks of North Fort Myers. The event was held inside a gym beside a Winn-Dixie in a strip shopping center.

...

Thirty minutes later, sitting in his car with a sense of relief, he has written a short story, cropped one digital picture, written a caption, uploaded it all to the Web and linked to a previous story he'd written on the calendar fundraiser. Traditionally, such a story would barely rise to the level of a newspaper's weekly community insert. Yet this is the third story Myron has written on the calendar.

You can pick up your chicken dinner at the front desk.

 

[Football_Bat]

This critter has existed for years. It's called a "small weekly sports editor."

 

[Rex Harrison]

Yep. At my former paper, a backpack with a laptop and videocamera was called a "mojo pack." **** you not.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Yep. At my former paper, a backpack with a laptop and videocamera was called a "mojo pack." **** you not.

Mojo Pack has great potential as a sexual euphemism.
Just sayin'

 

[BYH]

Yep. At my former paper, a backpack with a laptop and videocamera was called a "mojo pack." **** you not.

Mojo Pack has great potential as a sexual euphemism.
Just sayin'

Also sounds like the fan club for Mojo Nixon.

 

[Small Town Guy]

Too bad this hire doesn't get to cover Permian football.

http://www.kylgrafx.com/mojo/origin.htm

 

[fossywriter8]

I love how the salary is listed as "negotiable." That just screams "we're going to pay you even less than what most people think is rock bottom for this job."
I'm all for doing as much as you can for your job, but when will the higher-ups realize adding even more duties on a person and paying pittance (if that) more often results in crappy product.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

The salary is negotiable.

Small bag or large one?

 

[BYH]

Pray...for...mojo.

 

[John]

Pray...for...mojo.

Wow.

 

[dixiehack]

Not that imaginative. Gannett's been doing it for several years. Pretty sure the basic model is pay the reporter less than a normal reporter, and require him to put thousands of miles on his own car, with ****ty reimbursement.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/03/AR2006120301037.html

So Myron sits in the parking lot, hunched over, keeping one eye out for threatening vagrants, and peers through his steering wheel to file a story on his laptop, perched on his knees. The workplace is, at best, ergonomically challenging.

The event he just covered? The signing of a fundraising calendar for the local chamber of commerce featuring the Hunks of North Fort Myers. The event was held inside a gym beside a Winn-Dixie in a strip shopping center.

...

Thirty minutes later, sitting in his car with a sense of relief, he has written a short story, cropped one digital picture, written a caption, uploaded it all to the Web and linked to a previous story he'd written on the calendar fundraiser. Traditionally, such a story would barely rise to the level of a newspaper's weekly community insert. Yet this is the third story Myron has written on the calendar.

Allow me to pick the one decent idea out of the dung heap.

Enlisting the help of dozens of reader experts -- retired engineers, accountants, government insiders -- to review documents and data to determine why it costs so much to hook up water and sewer service to new homes in the area. The result: an investigative report that resulted in fees lowered by 30 percent and an official ousted. Gannett calls the practice "crowdsourcing." The News-Press and other Gannett papers also are building searchable online databases on as many topics as they can think of, in part to "enable people to do digging themselves and maybe find conclusions we won't," said Michael Maness, Gannett's vice president of strategic planning. "It's having thousands of investigative reporters instead of three."

 

[zebracoy]

"It's having thousands of investigative reporters instead of three."

And not paying them!

 

[dargan]

Yep. At my former paper, a backpack with a laptop and videocamera was called a "mojo pack." **** you not.

Mojo Pack has great potential as a sexual euphemism.
Just sayin'

Also sounds like the fan club for Mojo Nixon.

"Just go to Sirius.com and find the Loon in the Afternoon's Mojo Pack."