Press Gazette is advertising for something called an “online reporter”. Apparently, this person’s role will be to “break news stories about the magazine, online and newspaper industries, blog and contribute to the magazine”.
The publication’s advert says that the ideal candidate to be “online reporter” will:
“…have knowledge of and good contacts within the journalism industry and be able to break stories and keep abreast of breaking news, writing for the website and the the wire…”
What planet are these people on? Press Gazette has a staff of six reporters. What are these guys doing? Is Wilmington seriously telling us that there’ll be six people working exclusively on the mag?
But I forget - Wilmington has already decided that it’s going to club Press Gazette to death as fast as it can - how else does one explain its genius idea of only putting something called “breaking news” on the website? Why else would the brains trust at this company “save” everything else for its (now monthly) magazine?
Let’s give it six months, shall we?
Actually, no. I left Press Gazette several weeks ago. There are only two reporters there at the moment.
To get to six figure, you need to include the editor-in-chief, editor, deputy editor and subeditor who are primarily working on the magazine.
Sorry about that, Martin, and congratulations. I’ve amended the post.
PG doesn’t have “a staff of six reporters” - it has a staff of six.