On Campus, an Experiment to Save Local News [
Times]
1. If this isn't a non sequitur, it should be:
Quote:
MACON, Ga. — From the rattling cicadas at twilight to the willow trees bending in the late summer heat, the lush campus of Mercer University seems like the last place to find one of the nation’s boldest journalism experiments.
2. Why can't the local rag[*] do its job? Because of all those selfish journalists, off making babies or not working [for no pay]:[*][*]
Quote:
At a recent morning editorial meeting, Oby Brown, the senior editor of local news for The Telegraph, ran through a long list of story ideas. With many of the paper’s 20 staff journalists out on mandatory furloughs and maternity leave, he said there’s “not a lot of room for throat-clearing.”
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When I was in the Newspaper Fund internship program, back in the Quincy Adams administration or thereabouts, the Macon paper was dead last in the salary it paid its intern. It couldn't pay the intern any less than the federal minimum wage, so federal minimum wage it was. The paper still tried to cheat the intern out of the value of the stipend that the Fund paid the intern.
[*][*] "Mandatory furloughs." Nice Orwellianism, that. Where English is spoken, that's called a layoff.
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