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Public spectacle

The amount of support I have received in the last 48 hours has been astounding. I have heard from plenty of friends, fellow news people and total strangers on.Facebook and Twitter. Many of the people who I covered regularly have reached out to me to wish me well. Many, many news colleagues have reached out, especially those who have also been laid off. It all makes me feel very good to see people be supportive of a trying time.

But it has really added to the pressure. I feel like a lot of eyes are on me. The Post Standard story was unexpected, and I feel that the layoff making the paper and YNN has made this situation go from a somewhat personal thing to a public spectacle. The amount of pressure I feel to find a job is ever-mounting. I can’t explain it. I feel there are so many eyes on me, that I will let them down if I don’t find a job. Here’s hoping my job search is a quick and painless one.


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frustratedjournalistcat: Sure we’ll cover your ribbon-cutting… If Jesus Christ is using the scissors. —Submitted via our Meme Generator. You can also create your own and submit via our Tumblr page. Via Frustrated Journalist Cat

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Sure we’ll cover your ribbon-cutting…

If Jesus Christ is using the scissors.

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frustratedjournalistcat: “Can you call me and leave me a message with your email so I can send you a news release?” “I’ll fax you a ‘keep dreaming.’” —Submitted via our Meme Generator. You can also create your own and submit via our Tumblr page. Via Frustrated Journalist Cat

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“Can you call me and leave me a message with your email so I can send you a news release?”

“I’ll fax you a ‘keep dreaming.’”

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When I find blatant plagiarism of my work

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futurejournalismproject: Employment in journalism has plummeted to levels by seen since the halcyon days of the early 1990s. Compiled from data gathered by the American Society of News Editors, the chart above shows newsroom staff in 2011 dropped to levels not seen in the U.S. since 1978. Newspapers now employ 40,600 editors and reporters vs. a peak of 56,900 in the pre-Internet year of 1990, according to the census released today. Thus, newsroom headcount has fallen by 28.6% from its modern-day high. Granted, there’s nothing particularly newsworthy about the decline of newspaper staff. And there is one bright spot. The ASNE data collection project began to track the number of journalist of color who were working at papers across the U.S. In 1979 just 3.6 percent of reporters were people of color compared to 12.3 percent in 2011. While this figure lags well behind the overall racial diversity of the American populace, it’s an indication that more than technology has changed in newsrooms. Also not included in he data are journalism jobs at online-only shops like Gawker or Aol’s cornucopia of Internet media properties such as Huffpo and Patch. While not enough to offset industry-wide decline, there are thousands of modern journalists working full time whose last chance to see their name in print was likely time spent working for the college rag. H/T PBS MediaShift Via The FJP Zoom

futurejournalismproject:

Employment in journalism has plummeted to levels by seen since the halcyon days of the early 1990s. Compiled from data gathered by the American Society of News Editors, the chart above shows newsroom staff in 2011 dropped to levels not seen in the U.S. since 1978.

Newspapers now employ 40,600 editors and reporters vs. a peak of 56,900 in the pre-Internet year of 1990, according to the census released today. Thus, newsroom headcount has fallen by 28.6% from its modern-day high.

Granted, there’s nothing particularly newsworthy about the decline of newspaper staff. And there is one bright spot. The ASNE data collection project began to track the number of journalist of color who were working at papers across the U.S. In 1979 just 3.6 percent of reporters were people of color compared to 12.3 percent in 2011. While this figure lags well behind the overall racial diversity of the American populace, it’s an indication that more than technology has changed in newsrooms.

Also not included in he data are journalism jobs at online-only shops like Gawker or Aol’s cornucopia of Internet media properties such as Huffpo and Patch. While not enough to offset industry-wide decline, there are thousands of modern journalists working full time whose last chance to see their name in print was likely time spent working for the college rag.

H/T PBS MediaShift


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Friend tells you scandalous story. Your immediate response: Who what when where why?! #partylikeajournalist

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the only improvement is if they drew something crashing and burning.

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