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Journalists paid by "likes"

Post by FlammableFlower » Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:28 pm

Telegraph is considering linking journalists pay to the popularity of their articles.

I can't see any unforeseen outcomes, especially in the current political climate...

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Post by Bird on a Fire » Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:59 pm

FlammableFlower wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:28 pm
Telegraph is considering linking journalists pay to the popularity of their articles.

I can't see any unforeseen outcomes, especially in the current political climate...
Assessing the value of article-writers' careers according to easily gamed engagement metrics?! Disgraceful. Who do they think they are, academics?
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Post by Allo V Psycho » Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:12 pm

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:59 pm
FlammableFlower wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:28 pm
Telegraph is considering linking journalists pay to the popularity of their articles.

I can't see any unforeseen outcomes, especially in the current political climate...
Assessing the value of article-writers' careers according to easily gamed engagement metrics?! Disgraceful. Who do they think they are, academics?
OK BoaF, you made me laugh there :-)

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Re: Journalists paid by "likes"

Post by FlammableFlower » Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:22 am

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:59 pm
FlammableFlower wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:28 pm
Telegraph is considering linking journalists pay to the popularity of their articles.

I can't see any unforeseen outcomes, especially in the current political climate...
Assessing the value of article-writers' careers according to easily gamed engagement metrics?! Disgraceful. Who do they think they are, academics?
Arf, that's a good one

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Post by bjn » Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:42 pm

FlammableFlower wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:28 pm
Telegraph is considering linking journalists pay to the popularity of their articles.

I can't see any unforeseen outcomes, especially in the current political climate...
Hasn't it always been like that, but mediated by circulation figures, market surveys and all that sort of analogue age stuff?

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Re: Journalists paid by "likes"

Post by FlammableFlower » Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:04 pm

Not sure on the detail, but I thought before it was less directly linked. Before, popular journos/writers could negotiate better pay, now the link is being more directly and rapidly made. It's now being fed steroids.

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Post by headshot » Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:13 pm

Similar to a theatre company I know of that only offers auditions to people that have more than 10,000 followers on social media. Bobbins.

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Post by dyqik » Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:35 pm

They're all probably already doing something not too far from this, with page impressions on websites. But meditated by common* sense of editors etc.

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Post by Bird on a Fire » Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:21 pm

headshot wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:13 pm
Similar to a theatre company I know of that only offers auditions to people that have more than 10,000 followers on social media. Bobbins.
You can buy 10,000 social media followers for a few quid, so that's a really stupid way of making theatre more elitist without actually filtering candidates usefully.
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Re: Journalists paid by "likes"

Post by headshot » Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:57 pm

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:21 pm
headshot wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:13 pm
Similar to a theatre company I know of that only offers auditions to people that have more than 10,000 followers on social media. Bobbins.
You can buy 10,000 social media followers for a few quid, so that's a really stupid way of making theatre more elitist without actually filtering candidates usefully.
Yyyyup. Also, why would even having 10,000 legit followers make someone a suitable/talented candidate?

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Re: Journalists paid by "likes"

Post by Bird on a Fire » Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:01 pm

headshot wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:57 pm
Bird on a Fire wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:21 pm
headshot wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:13 pm
Similar to a theatre company I know of that only offers auditions to people that have more than 10,000 followers on social media. Bobbins.
You can buy 10,000 social media followers for a few quid, so that's a really stupid way of making theatre more elitist without actually filtering candidates usefully.
Yyyyup. Also, why would even having 10,000 legit followers make someone a suitable/talented candidate?
I mean, the first thing I do after watching a good play is follow all the cast members on Instagram. Doesn't everyone? ;)
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Re: Journalists paid by "likes"

Post by Squeak » Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:33 pm

headshot wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:57 pm
Bird on a Fire wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:21 pm
headshot wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:13 pm
Similar to a theatre company I know of that only offers auditions to people that have more than 10,000 followers on social media. Bobbins.
You can buy 10,000 social media followers for a few quid, so that's a really stupid way of making theatre more elitist without actually filtering candidates usefully.
Yyyyup. Also, why would even having 10,000 legit followers make someone a suitable/talented candidate?
On the unsupportable assumption that those 10,000 followers are real, I guess it makes your advertising strategy somewhat easier. A cast of ten gives you a list of several tens of thousands (assuming a lot of duplicates) of followers interested in seeing as least one cast member perform.

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