Columbia Journalism Review takes a look at the trouble career path of an award-winning Kansas City journalist in the aftermath of newspaper decline: This Kansas City reporter was laid off twice in a year—but her work has just helped change a state law
H/T: Media KC
H/T: Media KC
The Star has made and continues to make some terrible personnel choices when it come to writers, and the paper gets more and more loaded down with just plain poor reporters and columnists who insist on writing about both frivolous topics or events that they clearly really don't know anything about.
ReplyDeleteYou wouldn't think this can go on forever.
That's because The Star isn't even technically a local media outfit anymore. Decisions are made in Sacramento.
ReplyDeleteThe future isn't bright for journalists.
ReplyDeleteThe future isn't bright for OLD journalists. Nowadays 150 characters is the same as 150 column inches in the eyes of the reader
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the Pitch will become a real paper now!
ReplyDeleteHow many good reporters have left the Pitch in the last
ReplyDeleteTen years?