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December 15th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
#10052: I worked for an editor once who had the same rule. On top of that, she displayed all the symptoms of borderline personality disorder and cut people to shreds with her sharp tongue and childish temper tantrums. She drove even veteran male reporters to ulcers and tears, and some of her former employees have left journalism entirely. Unfortunately, she had the complete backing of the publisher, who topped her in arrogance and cruelty. Needless to say, the newsroom turnover was the highest I’ve ever seen. I only lasted there a year and a half before I had to get out to save my mental health.
December 15th, 2009 at 11:30 am
#10051
Don’t slam the features editors. We’re all in this together. I write features in a small town where “every thing has been done…”
But, I’m often told my writing is new and refreshing. I suggest you give the features people more credit. Hard news/court news is SO much easier.
December 15th, 2009 at 7:04 am
I can’t travel out of town with my family for Christmas because I only get Christmas Day off…….and that pretty much means I will be alone for the second half of Christmas Day, since my family is leaving at noon that day.
December 14th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
#10047: You will adapt and the skills you learn doing cops/courts are applicable on community news and features as well. And the reverse is true, too: I’ve won a number of awards for my cop/courts coverage simply because I handle them like a features reporter would.
You’ll be fine, once you get used to all the balls you’ll need to have in the air at one time on that beat.
December 14th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Our press room guys are telling everyone about how few copies that we’re printing and that we’re lying about our stated circulation, by up to 50 percent on weekdays. (The ad department knows this too, but keep their mouths shut.) It’s just a matter of time before this reaches the advertisers, which means lawsuits — and successful ones — because the paper is defrauding them. Heck, it might even mean we lose our legal ad certification.
And that means the publisher and probably the managing editor will be fired. It’s the best Christmas gift ever for the rest of us.
December 14th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I’m angry that happyjournalist.com is so very dead. It was entertaining reading all the delusional posts of people who actually believed journalism would do right by them.
December 14th, 2009 at 9:47 am
#10047:
I was once like you. I had a job at a trade pub that amounted to telemarketing. I finally did move on to become a reporter/editor. I wish I left that job sooner. Life is too short to waste it on a job like that. If you are not happy, keep looking. Offer to do stringer work for your local newspaper, and make contacts!
December 14th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Is anyone else panicked about meeting deadlines around the holidays? We go to press right around that time, so I am really freaking out. There is no way we’re going to get our next month’s issue done on time unless I work during Christmas. I’ve done it before, sitting in a corner with my laptop while everyone else makes merry. Meanwhile, all of our non-editorial employees just stop working for two weeks. Our publisher is aware of all of this but doesn’t care; he expects us back on Dec. 26 to somehow put together an entire issue in about two days. The worst part is, my family and friends don’t get this because they think all I do all day is sit at a desk and “write stuff.” Wake me up when it’s 2010.
December 14th, 2009 at 6:35 am
I had a long conversation with my fellow reporters this weekend. We ALL agree that the new editor is driving us CRAZY! Believe it or not, we actually enjoyed our previous editor, despite the long hours and small pay. Our new editor has all of us wound up pretty tight now—we aren’t even allowed to talk to one another unless it’s about something work related.
We all sort of implied that we are looking for other jobs……I KNOW I am!
December 14th, 2009 at 1:34 am
dear 10047: court/crime news IS community news. Nobody wants to read crappy features. Very few people do features well. Don’t worry, you’re not going to lose your job for not knowing what you’re doing. That doesn’t happen in journalism. If you read the moronic stuff in most papers, you’d know that. Your editors have no clue how stupid you feel! Think of court/crime beat as a learning opportunity. And probably the most fascinating job you will ever have. The inside scoop on courts and cops? How can you top that in the early years of your career??? A lot of people would love to have your problem.
December 13th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
I’m not even a real journalist just a student and I’m pissed as hell at how this whole newspaper experience is going. My editors don’t care about their jobs and right now I’m mad because I made the mistake of volunteering to take on a story everyone wanted in this next issue but it has a three day deadline. So I worked my ass of on this and my editor won’t even take the time to read it by the time he promised so now I’m behind.
December 13th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
10034 —
We must work for the same company. Our tiny newsroom is spending — or poised to spend — so much time on Web garbage that we barely have enough time to cover our beats, let alone enterprise material.
December 13th, 2009 at 5:51 am
Kiyoshi – I am one of the 78,730 return visitors. I stop by at least once a day. It is cheaper than therapy. Thank you for keeping the site going. -
December 12th, 2009 at 11:23 am
I wanted to do feature pieces or community news and the only job offer I got was for a court/crime reporter. I now spend everyday horrifed that I’m going to lose my job and ruin my career because I’m out of my element.
I want to get out and find the job I worked towards before its too late.
December 12th, 2009 at 3:37 am
Dear #10028,
If by “getting shafted by the copy desk” you mean, “Someone cleaned up my wretched grammar, atrocious spelling, slipshod punctuation and ass-backward sentence structure, while changing my lede and four other grafs to keep me and my paper from getting sued for libel,” you’re welcome.
December 11th, 2009 at 12:38 am
I hate my job. What else is new?
December 10th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – The journalism trade journal Editor & Publisher is shutting down after 108 years of publication.
Editor & Publisher is being closed as its parent company, the Nielsen Co., sells several of its other business publications such as The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CGIOMG0&show_article=1
December 10th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
@ AJ 10031: It should be just fine. You are, after all, a news reporter and should be able to set your personal beliefs and feelings aside when writing an article.
December 10th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
I hate Saxotech!
December 10th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
#10031-
If you are a good reporter, then, yes, it should go well.