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Kevin Allman (who I recently interviewed) points way to a great new business strategy used by a free daily paper in Toronto. They fired their entire writing staff and are now using unpaid interns to write the news. The publisher calls it a "small adjustment."
Kevin Allman (who I recently interviewed) points way to a great new business strategy used by a free daily paper in Toronto. They fired their entire writing staff and are now using unpaid interns to write the news. The publisher calls it a "small adjustment."
posted by Matt Bors at
1:47 PM
2 Comments:
What is the motive for the interns? Internships only make sense as a gateway to a future professional position as a journalist. That is, someone who gets PAID to do QUALITY work. If more papers take up this Toronto paper's model, they will attract only the dimmest sort of interns as anyone with brains will flock to industries that offer paychecks somewhere down the road. This is self-defeating.
um...Kevin? You're employing logic to try to understand this. Please stop.
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