Comments on: Only hire the best. http://ryansholin.com/2007/12/24/only-hire-the-best/ The future of news. And more. No funny stuff. Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:22:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Journalism Iconoclast http://ryansholin.com/2007/12/24/only-hire-the-best/comment-page-1/#comment-9601 The Journalism Iconoclast Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:16:05 +0000 http://www.ryansholin.com/2007/12/24/only-hire-the-best/#comment-9601 [...] Ryan Sholin says we should expect even more than what Greenbaum is suggesting. I’ll take that next step: Newspapers should be hiring reporters who can work in more than one medium. As we repeat over and over again, the days of the one-tool player are long, long gone. [...] [...] Ryan Sholin says we should expect even more than what Greenbaum is suggesting. I’ll take that next step: Newspapers should be hiring reporters who can work in more than one medium. As we repeat over and over again, the days of the one-tool player are long, long gone. [...]

]]> By: Mindy McAdams http://ryansholin.com/2007/12/24/only-hire-the-best/comment-page-1/#comment-9581 Mindy McAdams Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:31:58 +0000 http://www.ryansholin.com/2007/12/24/only-hire-the-best/#comment-9581 I'll do you one better: When your newsroom is permitted to hire an "online producer" to do brainless monkey work, alone, at night, tap seven reporters and inform them that each one must now do one night shift a week in the monkey-work job. Then use the freakin' salary to hire a skilled young (hungry) online journalist to do REAL online work!! Like, something that might actually interest your community! I am sick and tired of newsroom managers who interview my best students and then offer them a monkey job. Way to shoot yourself in the other foot, folks. I’ll do you one better: When your newsroom is permitted to hire an “online producer” to do brainless monkey work, alone, at night, tap seven reporters and inform them that each one must now do one night shift a week in the monkey-work job.

Then use the freakin’ salary to hire a skilled young (hungry) online journalist to do REAL online work!! Like, something that might actually interest your community!

I am sick and tired of newsroom managers who interview my best students and then offer them a monkey job. Way to shoot yourself in the other foot, folks.

]]> By: Recruiting The Best: You Gotta Have High Standards « TEACH J: For Teachers of Journalism And Media http://ryansholin.com/2007/12/24/only-hire-the-best/comment-page-1/#comment-9573 Recruiting The Best: You Gotta Have High Standards « TEACH J: For Teachers of Journalism And Media Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:20:16 +0000 http://www.ryansholin.com/2007/12/24/only-hire-the-best/#comment-9573 [...] too many times by one bad apple. If you want to be the best, you have to work with the best. The pros know it. We can’t let a little competition keep us from the kids that really want to be in our [...] [...] too many times by one bad apple. If you want to be the best, you have to work with the best. The pros know it. We can’t let a little competition keep us from the kids that really want to be in our [...]

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