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February 12th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
The futility of having my day end whenever someone ‘feels’ like calling me back.
February 12th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I worked in Journalism for seven years and loved every minute of the job while hating the corporate BS. Now I am a Corporate Exec and hate my job but love the salary which is 5 times larger than my last newsroom job. I had to pick which areas we were going to cut from and got a bonus based on how much I was saving the company. Do I feel guilty? Not really, even thought I admit I should. I am more angry at my superiors who ignored my other suggestions to save money which did not involve people losing their jobs.
February 12th, 2009 at 9:59 am
I just paid a month ahead on my subscription to my local print daily. That is all.[/vent]
February 12th, 2009 at 3:40 am
I’m angry because after working a 13 hour day my photograph was given a competeing photographer’s byline
February 11th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
I am angry, but more sad than angry. I fear for our country.
– ex-reporter
February 11th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
How to make newspapers profitable: Fire all remaining employees to save the expense of salaries, reduce the circulation “footprint” to zero to save production costs, and cut all the remaining sections to save on newsprint.
See? Easy as pie. Oh wait ..
February 11th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
I’m angry because Gannett is closing my 138-year-old newspaper in a month because it’s no longer profitable enough for them. Then immediately after flying down to tell us last month about it, the Gannett execs went off to a fancy resort to play in a golf tournament.
February 11th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
I hate our retail department with a fucking passion. Why is it they must be so fucking retarded and do everything ass-backwards and still wonder why we treat them like the low-life shit bags they are *eye twitches*
February 11th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
I’m mad that many editors, publishers and assorted suits will read never read this gem penned from Walter Issacson in a recent issue of TIME. Thank you Mr. Issacson!
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Newspapers and magazines traditionally have had three revenue sources: newsstand sales, subscriptions and advertising. The new business model relies only on the last of these. That makes for a wobbly stool even when the one leg is strong. When it weakens — as countless publishers have seen happen as a result of the recession — the stool can’t possibly stand.
Henry Luce, a co-founder of TIME, disdained the notion of giveaway publications that relied solely on ad revenue. He called that formula “morally abhorrent” and also “economically self-defeating.” That was because he believed that good journalism required that a publication’s primary duty be to its readers, not to its advertisers. In an advertising-only revenue model, the incentive is perverse. It is also self-defeating, because eventually you will weaken your bond with your readers if you do not feel directly dependent on them for your revenue. When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, Dr. Johnson said, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
February 11th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
#8042 — I’m discussing how to thwart text thieves who use search engines and not necessarily the search engines themselves. If I want my stories cataloged by a search engine so they’ll send hits my way to read my stories and SEE MY ADS, then I’ll gladly send them a feed of tags in whatever format they need. They all have back doors for that purpose. But bloggers won’t be able to steal my text and reuse it without my ads because there won’t be any machine-readable text at the deep links I provide to the search engines.
#8036 — Same solution as the text-to-speech users: send each IP address a unique file* with slight benign differences in the spelling of proper nouns. When my text with those differences shows-up somewhere else I’ll know through which IP address it was stolen so I’ll start sending that IP address Klingon poetry when their poaching engine asks for the text files of my subsequent stories. They’ll quickly learn my site is too much trouble to steal from so they’ll scratch it off their hit list and move on to your site and steal your stuff instead.
My business model is advertising supported, period, not give-it-away-and-hope-we-survive-somehow.
(Still no charge.)
*yes, old fashioned ASCII files, because visually-impaired users would rather use FTP than web pages anyway, provided the content is the same. An FTP catalog screen is much easier to navigate using a screen reader, and all the clever artsy design elements of a web page mean nothing to someone who can’t see them, but can confuse reader apps. And, yes, text ads can be included in the files because blind people buy stuff and influence purchase decisions like anyone else.
February 11th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Ha, so I posted something on Joe Grimm’s site today and they took it down because I posted some pseudonymous details on their online profile requirements. Fair enough, but like I’d post to Grimm with my real name. Here’s the link…
http://www.poynter.org/article_feedback/article_feedback_list.asp?user=&id=158246
My point, posted here instead for posterity, is that people considering journalism GRAD school are doubling down on a losing hand. If you’re smart enough for grad school — for God’s sake don’t go to journalism school. There is no body of knowledge worthy of supporting advanced graduate study, nor does the profession advanced study in reporting, spelling, grammar, multimedia. You should pick these skills up on the job or on your own. Further, what if your plan fails like so many other M.J. holders? Then you’ve got TWO worthless degrees and you’ve forgone two years of income. DON’T DO IT! If you need to find a job in the private sector or even education — folks who value graduate education value graduate journalism education much less. Much about journalism education is a damned fraud anyway. Don’t make yourself a loser and a sucker.
Go law school, physicians assistant, MBA, economics… whatever. All this knowledge is valuable to a journalist, but a journalists’ knowledge is worthless to these professionals.
February 11th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
We just got settled, and now there are more layoffs. Third round this year.
February 11th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
I’m angry cause I read in the Globe and Mail that Canada’s minister of heritage, James Moore, says he’s open to selling ads on CBC radio. Fuck that fat fuck.
February 11th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Newspapers: I’m angry that your soul crushing demands makes us go get piss drunk every night after deadline.
Wait, what?
February 11th, 2009 at 3:40 am
I’m angry because the knuckleheaded daytimers who run this popsicle stand apparently don’t care that the double-edged sword hanging over our heads — “Has the paper been sold?” and, “When will the next round of layoffs hit?” — is wreaking havoc on people’s health and has murdered whatever morale was left after the three previous “voluntary separation programs” since late 2006. As if it weren’t already bad enough that we’re being forced to take two unpaid “furlough” days this month and next … they must figure there’s nothing like a 10 percent pay cut for two months to make us think, “Well, at least I still have a job.”
February 10th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
#8036
And what would you do for people who require use of braille readers that are already compliant with Java, Microsoft, Apple, and other accessibility technologies that conform to standards more than ten years law? There are people with requirements who are both blind and deaf you know.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
To #8030:
Congrats! I am also getting off the sinking ship in a few months. Good riddance to all these bottom-line loving, position slashing a-holes!
February 10th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
im arngry today because after being dicked around by new jersey unemployment service, it seems i am not able to collect unemplyment benifits because i am a student. how backwards is this? im 25 and worked full time and went to school. but when i got laid off, unemploment says im not able to collect becuase im going to school! So basically they want me to quit school to collect, and then theey wany to send me to a “workforce development class” so that i can get skills to get a job. Hello? im already in school to get the training to get a job! Fuck new jersey unemployment
February 10th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
8010, I say this with as little contempt as possible, but you’re out of your mind. Your Web site should be MAKING MONEY. This means that you should put your text online for people and search engines to find. There’s a little thing called Search Engine Optimization that might get your site more hits. READ ABOUT IT.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I’m angry that I saw, as a black woman, all the white liberals in my newsroom praise Obama loudly every day while making jokes about strong black women in private and refusing to promote them.
I know what’s said. All you phonies…don’t think we don’t know. Some of you are more racist than the whites I lived near in Georgia.