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February 21st, 2009 at 2:20 pm
It has been six months since the last time I visited this site. I see nothing has changed.
Many of you still think you are in the “horse and buggy business” when in fact you are in the “transportation business”. (That is an analogy).
Gathering and dispensing news will continue forever. It is a useful function, one that should continue to be a money maker for those that can see how to do it in the future.
Unfortunately you guys (and gals) are at that junction where automobiles and trucks took over from the horse and buggy industry. I hate to be the one to tell you this but your business model is out of date and printed newspapers are going away. I don’t have a crystal ball so I can not tell you what is going to work and what is not going to work, but if I was a journalist today, I would be looking for that way.
A wise man once said the way to make money is to find something people were willing to pay for and provided it to them. If I had to guess I would say rather then one large news organizations there well be many small outlets. And rather then just “one voice” being heard, there will be many voices heard.
Instead of angeryjounalist.com there should be a web site called something like “journalism for the 21st century” where ideas could be shared and partnerships formed.
I wish you all luck because it is going to get much worse before it gets better.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:02 am
Sometimes I miss leaving reporting. Then I get on this site.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:13 am
I’m really angry about the mis-use of hyphens
February 21st, 2009 at 2:59 am
Doesn’t this have shit job written all over it? Why would anyone even apply?
Company: Woodburn Independent
Position: Twice-Weekly newspapers seeks general
assignment reporter
Location: Woodburn, Oregon
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: $20,000 to $25,000
Ad Expires: March 11, 2009
Job ID: 856781
Website: http://www.woodburnindependent.com
Description:
A twice-weekly newspaper in Woodburn is looking for a general assignment reporter for its news department.
Duties will include reporting on general news including multiple city council meetings, some schools reporting, as well as other projects as directed by the editor.
Photography experience a plus. Quark and Photoshop knowledge preferred. Some nights and weekends will be required. This is a full-time position with benefits.
Please send resume and clips to: Editor, P.O. Box 96, Woodburn, OR, 97071 or e-mail them to jhorton@woodburnindependent.com. No phone calls please. Pay will be based on experience. Pre-employment drug screening required.
February 21st, 2009 at 1:24 am
I’m angry because this asshole professional blogger just bragged to me about how linking to my story got them a bonus worth one week’s worth of my salary. Know how? They linked to it, excerpted half of it, wrote about 90 words of original copy making jokes about the subjects, and then because that got linked to a bigger blog they made a nice little handfull off it. But yeah, that’s cool.. only took me about 6 weeks of research and reporting and writing. Glad you got the financial windfall for 10 minutes of work. I’m not even 30, and I don’t see the point in continuing. If you play by the rules, you don’t make enough to support yourself and won’t until your 40, assuming you work your ass off and work up to bigger daily that’ll hire you. If you steal other people’s shit, you’re rewarded. That line about ‘you gotta love it’ is just a pile of shit they feed you to keep you on for wages and treatment that a high school dropout wouldn’t accept. I’ve talked to some of the blogger models making money. I seriously think I’m just going to start stealing copy. I’ll make more money linking to people who work, as long as it’s for the right Web site.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
I’m angry because for the first time in 31 years I am unemployed because our company leadership made poor choices and can’t afford to keep me; I’m angry because I have a great education and excellent employment history – but haven’t found a job; I’m angry because the job I interviewed for a week ago and was told “I’m perfece for” hasn’t called me back; I’m angry because I have no where to turn and feel as if I’ve let down my family – especially my children.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Please read the name on the top of the front page before you call me to demand a retraction. This is (still) a two-newspaper town, and I’m not responsible for the competition’s mistakes. And no, I won’t call the other editor for you.
February 20th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Movie criticism’s being gutted all across the country and now CBS decides to use it as a novely item. Thanks schmucks!:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118000381.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
February 20th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
“Just in case no-one told you, printed newspapers are dead. We know it, they know it; we’re just pretending they’re doing fine to be polite.” – @jearle
Source: http://www.journalism-is-dead.com/
February 20th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
High school athletic parents need to realize that local reporters are not out there to ruin the lives of their children. For the love of God, I’m not out there trying to make Suzie McSwimmer cry because she totally choked in the state championship meet.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:42 am
This encapsulates why I’m angry better than I could say: http://tinyurl.com/bbfq94
February 20th, 2009 at 9:52 am
uhhh….is someone on holidays or is this blog just a dead issue now?
February 20th, 2009 at 8:24 am
At the end of copy editing last night my story was a masterpiece. Now the entire second half reads differently than it did last night!!
I am SO HAPPY about tbis! No, I mean, it is totally awesome that my story is factually inaccurate now! Really!!
February 20th, 2009 at 1:28 am
Why hasn’t my rant about SPJ discrimination against copy editors appeared yet? No names, no problem, right?
February 19th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
People who won’t answer questions on interviews just because it make em look bad.
February 19th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
AJ No. 8079 must be a very funny person! I love the description of the bankers. Thanks for the laughs.
I have a quick question — What do you do when your requests for interviews go to PR people and just seem to stay in their pit? In some cases, I have never seen such a waste of money.
A lot of these folks just think they’re important (or their underlings think they are). I don’t see how hard it is to look at a calendar and stick my name on it someplace.
OK, there are folks such as Obama or the CEO of huge companies who are really busy, but everybody is “busy” nowadays.
If somebody in PR can enlighten me, then please do so.
Thanks
February 19th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
8067 –
Which plantation are you at? One of Billy Morris’ farms?
February 19th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Dear 8065 -
Sorry, but I’m still laughing.
Progress? Why do you work for a dumpy paper that publishes such crap? It’s so 5,000-circulation/1990-ish. Incredible.
Of course your moronic editor reamed you about such. You only wrote a 50-inch story on the local Saturn dealership that’s closing next week, not the 75 inches of copy they were expecting.
By the way, the Saturn manager called. Wants to proof your copy.
I was shocked when I learned the mid-sized daily I used to work for published “Progress” editions a few years before I arrived. If you are at a paper that still prostitutes itself to local businesses with “Progress” editions – and forces its writers to bang out 50 inches of copy about how the hospital put up new wallpaper last year …
You might as well shoot yourself.
Okay, don’t do that. I don’t even know you and I think there’s more hope for you. I’ve been there. What you should do is get out as fast as you can. Even public relations looks good now.
But, for God’s sake – enough with “Progress.”
And on your way out, flip off the moron editor. That’s progress.
P.S.: Uh, yes, they do think you signed on for the 24/7 cycle. That’s their internet super weapon. Right – super weapon. Keep on believing that, Wile E. Coyote managers. You’re still in the bunker, managers, oblivious to reality’s artillery shells raining upon you.
February 19th, 2009 at 6:53 am
At a meeting I was covering last night, I sat next to a man I’d never met before. Upon learning where I worked, he exclaimed (obviously assuming I’m a recent grad — I look youngish), “Wow, you’re really starting out at the very bottom!”
I’m entering my seventh year in this profession.
I declined to explain that this was the only job I could get when I moved out of state.
Go eff yourself.
February 19th, 2009 at 4:13 am
I’m angry because the SPJ discriminates against copy editors when it comes to the Sigma Delta Chi Awards for Excellence in Journalism. Of the dozens of categories for print, broadcast and online media, you’d think ONE would be for headlines — but you’d be wrong. This national journalistic organization takes our membership dues with one hand while slamming the door in our faces at awards time with the other.