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TBH I feel a particular exhaustion from this continual concept from journalists that their businesses need not operate within the context of this world. Unless you are explicitly intending to start a non-profit then creating a news startup w/o regard to economic viability is BS.Permalink On twitter.com
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Reading the Civil Shuts Down story I saw a number of people noting that 'well this is just the way of the world, journalism outlets startup and shutdown and we're used to it.' But that's not a good way forward for the industry and it is a self-fulfilling prophesy.Permalink On twitter.com
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The reason journalism startup outlets are not sustainable is because the people starting them up fail to acknowledge that they live in a world where they have to make money and then they don't plan for it and then they fail.Permalink On twitter.com
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The idea that you shouldn't expect your employer to be around in a year isn't something we, as an industry, should expect. I don't see how we can consider that an acceptable way to nurture the media industry or the talented people in it.Permalink On twitter.com
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Like... we live in capitalism. You don't have to like it, but if you are running a company that employs people you have to acknowledge it. You have to build around that, as a constraint, not shrug and ignore the basic requirement that a business must make money.Permalink On twitter.com
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And beyond that I don't think people really get the degree to which this makes the privilege problem ever worse in the news industry. It means only people with independent stability are allowed to participate in the experiments that might determine the future of our industry...Permalink On twitter.com
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And it badly locks out journalists with different backgrounds and resources because it favors hiring out of pre-existing networks (because you have to hire fast to fail fast). I just can't believe that journalists look at Fail Fast Tech Startupland and are taking it as a model.Permalink On twitter.com
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It's not a model, it can't be, because we see already how it reinforces racial bias, inequality, and the very gaps in coverage and trust that these startups claim to have an interest in filling...On twitter.com
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And to fail as a journalism startup when those are the stakes is a big deal, if journalism is important than creating stable organizations which can build up HR apparatus and good hiring practices and be reliable to their employees is *important*. Those are the table stakes.Permalink On twitter.com
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To fail to contribute to the ecosystem of journalism, when it means that you have failed potential journalists, injured the capacity to bring forward diverse journalists, and to widen involvement, that's nothing to be proud of. It injures that which journalism is intended to helpPermalink On twitter.com
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Now if there was real evidence that this issue, this pipeline, was something you were trying to address as part of your startup, than that is one thing. But I don't tend to see that in most of these startups.Permalink On twitter.com
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But otherwise you are just exhausting people and actively playing a role in repelling or ejecting them from the industry, and that is a bad thing.Permalink On twitter.com
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And yes. The problem of profitability is challenging, now more than ever. I know that better than most. But most of these startups? They're not even trying.Permalink On twitter.com
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I'm so tired.Permalink On twitter.com
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