Monday, May 7, 2012

Will the last one...

...out of the newsroom please turn off the lights?
Bad news from the Washington Post.
And my folks switched to it from the Baltimore Sun since it had more stories in the paper.
The Other McCain knows reporters need to be more like him to keep writing for pay.
The essential problem of Old Media dinosaurs is that they refuse to acknowledge that a lean-and-mean operating model, with a more efficient use of personnel and a flatter pay structure, is their only hope for survival. Publishers simply can’t keep paying six-figure salaries to scores of people whose output averages no more than a few hundred words per day. Excessive specialization, eight-hour days, three weeks of annual vacation — you’re just not going to be able to compete like that in the New Media environment.

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