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- shiwani - Apr 09 2008 | news, journalism, media
Jack Shafer takes the position that there's actually a silver lining in the newsroom buyouts - younger, newer blood comes into the field. But that's only true if the publications stay afloat long enough to hire new full-timers!
Quoted: Advertising revenue at newspapers has fallen off a cliff. Average circulation is down, too, and the combined trends are prompting publications to say goodbye with a wad of cash to their most experienced and decorated hands. Yet, good news can be found inside the bad news.
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I agree. One of the biggest frustrations with trying to get a newspaper job is that at the good papers no one ever leaves. So, you end up with these crusty editors and reporters trying their darndest to figure out what the young kids are wearing for the back to school feature (true story from my hapless intern days), and they don't really even know how to talk about it. I think it's borderline dangerous to have such a homogenus newsroom. You NEED young and old and you need different ethnicities. The newsroom where I cut my teeth in Michigan was mostly middle aged to older white men. We literally had one black person and no other ethnicities represented at a 200,000 circulation daily. So, in a way, this is kind of good news. A newsroom should be like a microcosm of the community it covers.
true... i think it's one of the few fields that was still very much an old boys' club up until recently. i felt that way about the upper eschelons of book publishing, but there was no shortage of diversity coming in and working its way up the ranks.