Ryan Tate of Gawker has a nice story about how the business journalists at Bloomberg News are not the only ones laboring under a management by fear operating style.
“Then there’s Reuters, and its ‘Beats and Exclusives’ scoop-tracking system — ‘the bastard twin to the one at Bloomberg,’ as one source described it, in which the act of breaking news first is recorded via written ‘notes.’
“The ‘Beats and Exclusives’ system wasn’t a very big deal until this year, when for the first time it will be used as the basis for pay, says our source, following an impasse in negotiations between Reuters and a union to which its journalists belong. Now ‘reporters who don’t file the requisite number of beats and exclusives will take it in the paycheck, so to speak.'”
Read more here.
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