‘The Good News about Newsroom Buyouts’
There’s an article on Slate that argues there are some advantages of the buyouts of veteran reporters at newspapers - new blood on old beats, changes in the ways newsrooms operate to make them more efficient, and even giving old journalists a chance to reinvent themselves. I’m not sure I agree with everything said, or that the negatives don’t still outweigh any positives, but thought the article was presenting some interesting ideas.
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kparker
April 8, 2008 @ 11:53 am
That might be a good thing, but just eliminating your newsroom (as CBS is rumored to be doing) and contracting it out to a third party (in this case CNN) is much more troubling.
tsullivan
April 8, 2008 @ 12:09 pm
I agree that eliminating your newsroom would be a bad idea (here’s the story in the New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/business/media/08cbs.html?ex=1365 by the way). It seems though that it would be similar in a way to what Huffington Post or Drudge do - taking someone else’s reporting and collecting and packaging it for your audience.