Leí en el NYTimes un artículo más que interesante de Jeremy W. Peters sobre las condiciones laborales de los periodistas online. El título es tajante: "En el periodismo online, el síndrome del quemado empieza de más jóvenes" y relata cómo es laburar en Politico.com, una de las publicaciones digitales más prestigiosas de los Estados Unidos. Horarios imposibles, profesionales estresados y el imperio de la noticia más leída como parámetro de recompensa son algunas de las aristas de la historia. Se las recomiendo, acá los párrafos más interesantes:
Adio!"Such is the state of the media business these days: frantic and fatigued. Young journalists who once dreamed of trotting the globe in pursuit of a story are instead shackled to their computers, where they try to eke out a fresh thought or be first to report even the smallest nugget of news — anything that will impress Google algorithms and draw readers their way.
Tracking how many people view articles, and then rewarding — or shaming — writers based on those results has become increasingly common in old and new media newsrooms. The Christian Science Monitor now sends a daily e-mail message to its staff that lists the number of page views for each article on the paper’s Web site that day.
The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times all display a “most viewed” list on their home pages. Some media outlets, including Bloomberg News and Gawker Media, now pay writers based in part on how many readers click on their articles".
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