Posts by Bart Janssen
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Hard News: Sub Mission, in reply to Emma Hart,
pro bono work
missing "r"
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Hard News: Sub Mission, in reply to Hebe,
an observation
But Hebe you are looking at the whole cost. If you partition the costs into separate budgets then you can cut costs in the sub editor room and hit your KPIs. that the costs have gone up for the corporation as a whole is not your fault.
Also if they are so good at their job then they shouldn't be "wasted" working only on one newsroom.
Obviously I agree entirely with you, just all too aware of the way these decisions get made.
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Hard News: Sub Mission, in reply to Hebe,
Subs are journalists, oftentimes with many more years of experience than the reporter.
But from the perspective of a corporation managing resource units ...
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Hard News: Sub Mission, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
expecting everything to be wrong
I often read it out loud, it isn't great for my office mate nor for avoiding the mad scientist look, but it does catch some errors.
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And on topic. It seems that the problem is one of the corporate entity operating to maximize profit. In this case it is more profitable to out(in) source editing. Or perhaps more accurately treat sub editors as non-creative workhorses who can be packed into an open plan office to churn through their work without distraction by journalists.
It seems a predictable outcome of corporate ownership of journalism (or journalists). The corporation exists to maximize profit, the journalists exist to discover and disseminate knowledge/news. I can't see it as a good fit.
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Hard News: Sub Mission, in reply to Russell Brown,
it is hard to proof one's own copy
Yes! I'm a decent proofreader, something of a surprise to me because my spelling is not great. But for the life of me I can't proof my own writing. My eyes seem to run over the mistakes and my brain just fills in with what I meant to write.
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It’s a choice every young person on the brink of their professional life might make, between living your values and trying to get quick break.
Except that's not the choice. The reality is you can live your values anywhere. You can contribute to improving Australian or British or French or US society just as easily as you can contribute to NZ society. The idea that the only society you are part of is NZ is wrong, you are part of the human race and can contribute anywhere.
So now the choice is:
contribute in NZ where you get paid less and have your income taxed to pay for your temerity to do tertiary study
or
contribute somewhere else in the world and get paid more and don't get punished for having the audacity to educate yourself beyond the minimum.Stay in NZ for lots of reasons, like family and friends, and because it's beautiful here, but not simply to because you believe this is the only place you can contribute. You can and should live your values, you should also be rewarded (and even respected) for your contribution.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Gareth,
Lucky you had a vineyard to tide you over then :).
The main interest is we think we might be able to shorten the time it takes to establish an interaction. But even so not a quick experiment and you kinda need a bit of land to play on :). Maybe a retirement project.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Gareth,
More? I wrote the book!
I'm reading your book!! This is where we point out again how small NZ is. Had some ideas about truffles and our research and so grabbed some books, yours being one of them. Only problem is it takes years to do the experiments :(.
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So if I understand you correctly you'd like a legal structure where any number of people of any sex can form a contractual relationship. The purpose of the contract might include guardianship of children, ownership of property, next of kin rights (eg turning off the respirator).
Fine by me, make it so.