- Fri Aug 12, 2016 1:38 pm
#471660
Outside of magazines and, erm, actual journals, pretty much all journalism works on that model. Before the Internet, newspapers were (since the 1980s at least) loath to take on full time staff, preferring instead to have an army of casuals they could call on when needed. Indeed, depending on how truthful you take it to be, if Bill Bryson's accounts of staffing at the Times prior to the Murdoch takeover were true, it's hard not to admit that ol' Rupe kinda had a point*.
Clickbait is the current business model, like it or not. Have a read of this, from Cracked the other day:
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experie ... s-out.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
*NATSOPA was a notoriously parochial, combative and closed shop union that demanded support from other unions in times of strife but never supported another union reciprocally. The paper was ludicrously overstaffed and salaries were sky high. Productivity was rock bottom and it was running on obsolete technology. Of course, that's Bryson's take.
Clickbait is the current business model, like it or not. Have a read of this, from Cracked the other day:
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experie ... s-out.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
*NATSOPA was a notoriously parochial, combative and closed shop union that demanded support from other unions in times of strife but never supported another union reciprocally. The paper was ludicrously overstaffed and salaries were sky high. Productivity was rock bottom and it was running on obsolete technology. Of course, that's Bryson's take.
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