PostGlobe: Former Seattle P-I online producer on unemployment and journalism’s future
May 22nd, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Job losses
Interesting piece from last week: Jake Ellison, former designer, reporter and online producer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reflects on his decision to take redundancy when the title’s print edition ceased.
“I, like most bloggers and formerly employed journalists, am now writing for free, and that is not a sustainable social model for finding, investigating and sharing information about the powerful, the greedy and the downtrodden,” he writes.
Tags: designer, Jake Ellison, online producer, reporter and online producer, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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