Comments on: ‘Hold the front page, I haven’t got a clue’ http://www.thevideoreporter.com/2010/05/17/%e2%80%98hold-the-front-page-i-haven%e2%80%99t-got-a-clue%e2%80%99/ The Video Reporter Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:17:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: The Video Reporter http://www.thevideoreporter.com/2010/05/17/%e2%80%98hold-the-front-page-i-haven%e2%80%99t-got-a-clue%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-727 The Video Reporter Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:30:07 +0000 http://www.thevideoreporter.com/?p=3392#comment-727 [...] over-eagerly in agreement as I heard what to me sounded like a rallying cry, especially to those doomsayers in the journalism industry who keep telling us that the end is [...] [...] over-eagerly in agreement as I heard what to me sounded like a rallying cry, especially to those doomsayers in the journalism industry who keep telling us that the end is [...]

]]> By: David Wilton http://www.thevideoreporter.com/2010/05/17/%e2%80%98hold-the-front-page-i-haven%e2%80%99t-got-a-clue%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-667 David Wilton Mon, 31 May 2010 19:30:59 +0000 http://www.thevideoreporter.com/?p=3392#comment-667 Journalism is starting to look like the legal profession. You have incredibly competitive law firm jobs that involve insane hours for ok money. Then you have independent solo practitioners only some of whom are extremely entrepreneurial and therefore successful, but considered bad by for the profession (ambulance chasers). Substitute law firms for national papers and solo practitioners for freelance journalists and the dynamics are very similar. It's the same old story of supply and demand. Too many of a given professional results in cut-throat competition for jobs and similar competition but lower barriers to entry for the indy practitioner. Regardless, I think Ed Caeser makes good points viz the competition for jobs. He doesn't really address the issue of entrepreneurial freelancers. That may be because he doesn't know that emerging side of the business. Journalism is starting to look like the legal profession. You have incredibly competitive law firm jobs that involve insane hours for ok money. Then you have independent solo practitioners only some of whom are extremely entrepreneurial and therefore successful, but considered bad by for the profession (ambulance chasers). Substitute law firms for national papers and solo practitioners for freelance journalists and the dynamics are very similar.

It’s the same old story of supply and demand. Too many of a given professional results in cut-throat competition for jobs and similar competition but lower barriers to entry for the indy practitioner. Regardless, I think Ed Caeser makes good points viz the competition for jobs. He doesn’t really address the issue of entrepreneurial freelancers. That may be because he doesn’t know that emerging side of the business.

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