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'Retraining' New York Times Reporters: A Raw Deal
The New York Times, my former mother-ship, is offering to “retrain” its reporters and turn them into new media whiz-kids. Only one problem with that.
Nobody wants to do it.
I can’t exactly blame the reporters. The memo a couple of weeks ago from one of the least user-friendly assistant managing editors at the paper, Susan Edgerley, held out what at first appeared to be the possibility of transformation: retraining print reporters to be producers for the web.
The Times desperately needs to do this. It has a skyscraper full of overpaid reporters and editors, and a terrifying market cap currently hovering at just $586 million. (Just five years ago, the stock price was about $45. It is now at $4.07.)
Throw in the abysmal advertising market, a declining print readership and the need to somehow hang on to the core intellectual capital of the newsroom that makes the paper what it is – and this seems like a necessary measure.
At first, reporters reacted to the memo with enthusiasm, from what I hear from the inside of the newsroom. After all, many of even the most veteran journalists want to equip themselves with the skills to survive the epochal changes hitting newsprint. Many of them want to adapt, and transform themselves.
But at what cost? It turns out that Edgerley wasn’t being candid about the consequences of such retraining.
A memo from the newspaper guild to reporters followed Edgerley’s, and warned them of the invisible downside to their voluntary “retraining”: they would have to leave the paper and be rehired at a lower salary. They would thus lose their seniority at the company, have to start earning vacation like new employees and be subject to the lesser protection offered web writers under the rules of the newspaper guild.
In fact, the gambit seems like a not-very-transparent attempt to cut reporters’ salaries, strip them of benefits and make their seniority disappear.
And what’s worse, if the paper decided the reporter didn't cut it as a newbie webbie – they’d be out on the street.
Times are tough all over. Reporters at the cliff-hanging Seattle Post-Intelligencer were offered a similar deal last week as the paper moves toward an online only version; many rejected it.
But old-timers at places like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and lots of other big newspapers need to do a reality check. The days of six-figure salaries for ink-stained writers are on their way to extinction, just like hot type. Whatever new business model emerges from these changing times almost certainly does not include salaries at that level.
But let’s be real. The Times cannot expect reporters to give up so many of their hard-earned benefits and job security for a chance to leap into the world of the web.
I mean, for that kind of deal, they can come work at a place like TheWrap. (Attention Pulitzer winners: I’m listed.)
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JTFloore Says
with all this talk about "retraining" and the need for journalists to become a "newbie webbie," i wonder how many ceos, executive editors and managing editors are being required to learn all these new multi-tasking practices. does anyone know of an exec editor or managing editor in this changing world of journalism who is being required to hit the street to interview, write a story AND shoot film? ANY such examples? ANYWHERE? i didn't think so.
Anonymous Says
The image of a gnarly old print journalist unwilling to expand his/her skills is, like most stereotypes, false -- almost all of us are eager to grow and make ourselves more marketable. The real issue, both for the gnarlies and for the young webbies, is that you can't live in the New York metropolitan area (or many other urban areas) on the kinds of salaries newspapers want to pay in the brave new world. At least, not if you hope to make a career of it, raise a family, send kids to college, etc.
Young Web Expert Says
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"The paradox is that the young web experts don't know a thing about proper journalism and the good reporters and editors don't have either the attention span or the desire to download pix....moderate inane blog comments.....shoot video (you can make more $ doing that shooting porn movies) . So therein lies the conundrum. Couple that with the corporate greed i.e. loss of seniority etc. and it's a recipe for disaster.
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Well, I'm a young web expert. I spent 5 years in a software company and 6 years of my career as a journalist (print and multimedia, thank you very much). I've produced award-winning journalism and now am teaching print reporters, 20 years my senior, how to do the things I learned the hard way -- fighting through unpaid internships, freelancing at a loss, ruining my 401k to finance my journalism, teaching myself difficult software, teaching myself code.
I have full and total respect for the veteran reporters I work with. I cherish them and their skills, and when we're on deadline producing a major feature, I hope they learn that I am not only a multimedia expert, but a professional and a journalist. And really, the "good reporters and editors" -- in fact, the best -- see their younger web-oriented colleagues as allies, worth training and developing into the next generation of editors. This is why I so readily share my skills and expertise with them.
The comment quoted above smacks of fear and derision, and a chip on the shoulder. Guess who wins in the new economy? It's a disaster only for those who aren't learning and adapting and trusting that the best of us, the most open of us, and the most respectful of us, will get through this crisis of journalism intact.
JTFloore Says
it is funny that the times is trying to snooker its own reporters with misleading explanations about "retraining." doesn't the great times have transparency in its own newsroom among its own staff? such hypocrisy is disgraceful. why doesn't the times practice what it preaches? could this possibly be defensible? NOOOOOOOO!!!
Anonymous Says
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The paradox is that the young web experts don't know a thing about proper journalism and the good reporters and editors don't have either the attention span or the desire to download pix....moderate inane blog comments.....shoot video (you can make more $ doing that shooting porn movies) . So therein lies the conundrum.
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That's completely false on multiple fronts. This sounds like the typical complaining of someone who has refused to update his/her professional skills during his/her career. I'm sorry it's taken print journalism to join virtually every other profession in expecting people to continue to upgrade their skills, but that's what you need today. If you didn't do it and still refuse to do it...well, who is to blame?
Anonymous Says
You say "the lesser protection offered web writers under the rules of the newspaper guild" as if the Guild drew up the rules to screw the Web people. It's a contract. It has two parties that make the rules. I don't have any first-hand knowledge of the negotiation, but my bet is the company pressed for the two tiered protection levels you describe rather than the Guild.
Anonymous Says
This being the Times, one can assume that the question of whether or not a reporter is successful as a "newbie webbie" is decided the moment they sign up for the retraining.
Casimir Says
Veteran journalists never got into this business to be tech/geeks. It's now hitting the wall. It's a tired metaphor, but it's like re-training a whaling captain to helm the Titanic. Now it's all one-man bands...like design for instance. At smaller papers, editors are tasked w/newsgathering and designing pages. I, for one, never got into this craft to be a graphic designer. The paradox is that the young web experts don't know a thing about proper journalism and the good reporters and editors don't have either the attention span or the desire to download pix....moderate inane blog comments.....shoot video (you can make more $ doing that shooting porn movies) . So therein lies the conundrum. Couple that with the corporate greed i.e. loss of seniority etc. and it's a recipe for disaster.
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