Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social

"journalism isn't profitable" until you remove the fail upward brunchlords consistently soaking up outsized compensation despite making endless, terrible choices

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Cwnidog 🍉🇵🇸 @cwnidog.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:28 UTC

Far too long for me to read online (I subscribe, so will read it in paper form). Suffice it to say that I was a WaPo subscriber for a decade and jettisoned them as of the first of this month.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:18 UTC

"According to two sources, [the Washington Post’s in-house content management system Arc XP] accounted for the majority of the Post’s losses in 2022 and 2023.” whoops

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@jamesland.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:47 UTC

Now do the NYT.

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Matt Hope @matthopeart.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:25 UTC

If you shed all the managers and upper echelon types you’ll probably have a lot more wiggle room

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tbd @tumescentnumpty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

obligatory

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Bipolar Viscountess @sharilyn.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:56 UTC

see also www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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Bipolar Viscountess @sharilyn.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

*whispers* and a good number of them came from across the pond

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:21 UTC

“Commodity News journalism”isn’t profitable. Lots of other modes are.

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