Journalism Thread

by **light rail coyote** » Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:20 pm

Feech La Manna wrote:Like, you're really rolling the dice with that. You're gonna get some pros and you're gonna get some people who built a brand on being "quirky."

meanwhile, there's thousands of talented, smart adjuncts that are barely able to afford rent or are working multiple jobs because the academic job market is a disaster.

by **shankly** » Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:41 pm

it feels like duca has been tapped by legacy media outlets to succeed and (well-written, totally legitimate) callouts are only going to give her more unearned opportunities in the future. you can't get rid of a hack.

by **Feech La Manna** » Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:07 pm

light rail coyote wrote:
Feech La Manna wrote:Like, you're really rolling the dice with that. You're gonna get some pros and you're gonna get some people who built a brand on being "quirky."

meanwhile, there's thousands of talented, smart adjuncts that are barely able to afford rent or are working multiple jobs because the academic job market is a disaster.

yup!

by **surly** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 7:59 pm

this is pretty fuckin funny

by **villalobos** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:22 pm

by **Barthes Starr** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 11:33 am

by **Feech La Manna** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 12:14 pm

Contributing at PragerU is definitely a very normal, appropriate thing for a Pulitzer Prize winning NYT columnist to do

by **coop** » Wed Oct 09, 2019 9:40 am

by **coop** » Wed Oct 09, 2019 9:46 am

by **Feech La Manna** » Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:58 pm

It's fucking insane Andy Lack still has his job, just an absoute embarassment to every fucking person who's enabled him. Looks like he won't be lasting much longer.

by **blurst of times** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:53 am

damn, rip. gawker people really can't catch a break. this sucks!

by **Spotlight Kid** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 10:13 am

Followup says it's just Splinter, not Splinter News, but not sure what that distinction means?

by **goldsoundz** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 10:21 am

man what the hell

by **saranclaps** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 10:30 am

Spotlight Kid wrote:Followup says it's just Splinter, not Splinter News, but not sure what that distinction means?

I would guess the Daily Beast article called it Splinter News not Splinter b/c of the URL (IIRC Univision couldn't get splinter.com)

by **saranclaps** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 10:30 am

This sucks. One of the few outlets doing adversarial journalism. Is there no union recourse?

by **razzle** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 10:33 am

We're going to have to start the printing presses back up and distribute newsletters

by **murray st.** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 10:41 am

it's a shame they won't be around to write angry essays about the post-impeachment pelosi administration

by **endless dave** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 11:04 am

yeah, fuck those people who lost their jobs because of bad faith lawsuit bedbugs and feckless VC ownership! you got 'em, murry st.!

by **murray st.** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 11:19 am

relax, buddy

by **endless dave** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:11 pm

if we want to play the "u mad" game, I wasn't the one who felt an urge to take a pot shot at them for the sin of making fun of Nancy Pelosi

by **Feech La Manna** » Thu Oct 24, 2019 4:20 pm

Feech La Manna wrote:It's fucking insane Andy Lack still has his job, just an absoute embarassment to every fucking person who's enabled him. Looks like he won't be lasting much longer.

Welp guess not

Fuck NBC

by **Feech La Manna** » Thu Oct 24, 2019 4:22 pm

They fucking signed Oppenheim to a new fucking deal in the middle of this! Insane!

by **Spotlight Kid** » Sat Oct 26, 2019 1:50 pm

Yo what is the take on Mel Magazine? They seem to do consistently interesting work, but also they're a side project of dollar shave club/Gillette? I have been kind of avoiding them because of it, but maybe it doesn't matter who's funding the writing as long as the writing is good and they're not like, totally evil? Inspired by this piece on Hawaii and colonialism https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/haw ... ou-anymore

by **struttin' evil mushroom** » Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:23 pm

my lukewarm take is that people at NBC really believe that what ronan is doing is hostage-taking and not real journalism like they do

if you've ever reported on reporters, which i have, they are the quickest group in the world to shut the fuck up if they think the story won't be kind to them

by **Feech La Manna** » Fri Nov 08, 2019 1:12 pm

lmao

by **Feech La Manna** » Fri Nov 08, 2019 1:12 pm

Overall I’ve found the Lauren Duca saga delightful (outside of the part where she was being abusive to ESL students) but it feels like it’s about to take a dark turn

by **Feech La Manna** » Tue Nov 12, 2019 8:38 am

Good to see the journalism community coming together to finally do some rigorous self-examination over... Northwestern’s student paper?

by **Happy and Healthy!** » Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:21 am

yeah it's real bad

i think the fundamental thing is text messages still feel much more personal than a phone call or a reach-out on social media

this didn't warrant 2 minutes of thought, consideration or discussion though

by **Happy and Healthy!** » Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:22 am

old journalist: DURRR we had these things called "PHONE BOOK" that let us call anyone! what's with the PC culture ruining our student newspaper journalism????

by **deadwolfbones** » Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:53 pm

A friend/coworker started this sheet: https://www.cjr.org/cjr_outbox/google-d ... ia-pay.php

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