Comments on: Journatic CEO: We are creating a better future for journalism

By: Cornelius Hackl

Cornelius Hackl — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:59:28 +0000

“But Timpone says those fees are for ‘part of a story’…”

Therein lies the problem – writing a story reduced to being considered “part of a story”, a task any monkey could do. Being paid the same or more for forwarding information as those charged to make it coherent and newsworthy.

There aren’t different people around to add links and edit material. When Journatic gets a PR, it will either have a link in it or not. If anyone adds a new link, they are going above and beyond, and their work quota will suffer. So it goes with anything extra that is paid for by the piece – good writing, accurate editing and original headlines all take time. Journatic highly discourages such time-wasting activities, preferring to hire dumb kids they can push around.

The writers don’t have much work to do once the associate assignment editors get done cleaning up the leads, but manage to screw them up anyway.

He’s clueless as to how his own company works.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:08:50 +0000

That’s a great point, Amanda.

By: Luciano Lucci

Luciano Lucci — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:39:32 +0000

now the papers “paper” are destined to disappear. If this can be seen as a loss of jobs, but also could be the creation of new professionals.
Without doubt, they would save a lot of paper, reducing the number of printed newspapers, to the environment and of ‘sustainability.
So I think it is an irreversible process that will bring everybody to relate to the internet and tablet, simply to learn more interesting information via the web.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:54:49 +0000

There are pros and cons to this approach, but one major con seems to be the lack of institutional knowledge. If you have four separate people working on one little squib of a story, who is going to be able to connect the dots and notice a pattern? Most small-town and suburban stories that I know have an arc that develops over a long period of time. How can you flag something intriguing or problematic if no single human being is following a story over time?