Newspaper Job Research Articles

“It’s like dying but not being dead” U.S. newspaper journalists cope with emotional and physical toll of job losses

Since 2008, U.S. newspaper jobs have been cut 51%, forcing journalists to seek new jobs and possibly careers. This study examined how journalists who lost their newspaper jobs (N = 306) navigated the emotional and physical toll of unemployment and adjusted to new work norms. Furthermore, this article examined how displaced journalists managed after returning to the workforce. Implications here might be indicators of what to expect for those who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Need of Different Software Life Cycle Models and Building Proposed Simulation Model Using a Simulation Tool

The condition software design is comprised of two words, software and design. Software is actually greater than just a plan code. A course is actually an executable code, which fulfills some computational function. Software is considered to become a selection of exe shows code, connected collections and newspaper jobs. Software, when generated a particular demand is called software product. This paper supplies an overview in the direction of the a variety of software life cycle designs.

Cutting Deeper: U.S. Newspapers Wipeout Jobs and Alter Career Identities

ABSTRACT Modeled on the “New Beats: A study of Australian Journalism Redundancies” project (2014–17), the purpose of this study was to gather data to examine how forced career change among U.S. newspaper journalists has affected their employment, professional identities, financial situations and perceptions of newspaper journalism. Drawing from a sample of about 350 former and current U.S. newspaper journalists who had lost their jobs, 47% said the career change did not affect their professional identity. Meanwhile, 36% still identify themselves as journalists, although many have not worked in their traditional newspaper job for several years. Similarities between this study and those conducted by the New Beats team include: About 30% of those who left newspapers returned to journalism jobs; the most common new career for the departed was in media communications or marketing; and Australian journalists and American journalists demonstrated a breadth of positive and negative emotions after leaving their media jobs. A common finding between this study and the Australian parent study is that journalists are actively negotiating their professional identity at a profoundly challenging moment, and that despite the role of structural forces, journalists are retaining at least some agency in how they define themselves.

Terry Pettus and the 1936 Seattle Newspaper Strike: Pivotal Success for the Early American Newspaper Guild

The American Newspaper Guild was struggling for life when Tacoma, Washington, journalist Terry Pettus wrote his 1935 letter requesting to join. Once on board, Pettus then successfully recruited journalists throughout the Northwest to the Guild. He launched, then advised the Seattle Newspaper Guild throughout its successful 1936 strike against William Randolph Hearst’s Post-Intelligencer. Archival records show that Pettus’s actions were pivotal to Guild successes, as the Seattle labor victory ushered in a tripling of Guild contracts with publishers nationwide in just a year. When Pettus’s own Tacoma newspaper closed soon thereafter, he was unable to land a new general interest newspaper job, probably because of publisher blacklisting. However, the experience led Pettus toward decades of subsequent political and labor activism in the Northwest.

New technologies and the labor market

Using newspaper job ad text from 1960 to 2000, we measure job tasks and the adoption of individual information and communication technologies (ICTs). Most new technologies are associated with an increase in nonroutine analytic tasks, and a decrease in nonroutine interactive, routine cognitive, and routine manual tasks. We embed these interactions in a quantitative model of worker sorting across occupations and technology adoption. Through the lens of the model, the arrival of ICTs broadly shifts workers away from routine tasks, which increases the college premium. A notable exception is the Microsoft Office suite, which has the opposite set of effects.

Writing the Northwest: A Reporter Looks Back by Hill Williams

441 Reviews Haycox had begun to expand his work by writing novel-length magazine serials, and in time, stand-alone novels. Late in his too-short career, Haycox began to scratch against the walls of the formula western. Richard Etulain, an established scholar of Western literature who has produced over fifty books, discusses in Ernest Haycox and the Western how Haycox struggled to become a more artful writer. Etulain evaluates this effort and has chosen not to be a serious critic but instead to be a kind of writing instructor afterthe -fact. Much of the text evaluates various Haycox stories — how a character is weak, a plot thin, a purpose muddled. Because it is not easy to find many Haycox stories outside of a few large Western-literature library collections, there will not be ready means for anyone to actually examine the stories Etulain grades. He also posits that Haycox’s cowboys endure a “Hamlet complex” when they cannot decide between the dark-haired woman with “elemental ” needs and the blonde one who must be won. Hamlet might not have suffered so had that been his dilemma. In 1923, Haycox graduated from the University of Oregon, where his writing mentor, Professor W.F.G. Thatcher, had encouraged him to write commercially. Through yearsofcorrespondence, Thatcher remained Haycox’s confidant and adviser. In the excoriating essay “Status Rerum,” written by fellow Oregonians H.L. Davis and James Stevens, however, this same Thatcher is mocked as an “honorable mention in the list of winners in a Chicago tire-naming contest.” All the region’s writers were mocked as producers of, well, horse manure. This reader was frustrated by Etulain’s use of the term “regionalism” to separate Haycox from Stevens and Davis. Etulain writes, “Haycox was not interested in becoming a regional writer.” Instead, he was “avoiding the regional path and embracing the Western” (p. 46). The semantics here are foggy. What does he mean by regional? No writer wants to be called regional, but good writers, like Davis and Stevens, observed their regions closely, published in respected national magazines, and created universal literature. Etulain , in an epilogue, does get around to defining regionalism. It is a fine critical epilogue that discusses Haycox in more contemporary terms than had the preceding text, which could have been written in the mid 1950s, just after Haycox ’s death and after his last novel appeared. Daniel Lamberton Walla Walla University WRITING THE NORTHWEST: A REPORTER LOOKS BACK by Hill Williams Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2017. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. 186 pages. $22.95, paper. Hill Williams is a curious man. Over more than four decades as a newspaper reporter, his curiosity gave readers insights on the world from Seattle’s Skid Road to the World War II– ravaged island of Saipan. As the Seattle Times science reporter from 1967 to 1991, Williams did not confine himself to interviewing scientists in lab coats. He went to sea in a Native American whaling canoe, watched a nuclear bomb test in Nevada, and walked through hot ash in the crater of Mount St. Helens a year after the mountain’s catastrophic 1980 eruption. In this thoroughly readable memoir, his third book, Williams tells how he covered some of those stories and sets them in their historic background. He also takes us into the world he grew up in — southeastern Washington during the Great Depression, when newspapers printed from lead type were king of the information world. There, his first newspaper job — doing work that no longer exists — was in the print shop of the weekly Pasco Herald, owned by his father. His description of the newspaper-creating process in that era is a gem of time travel. Williams began his reporting career on the Kennewick Courier-Reporter in 1948, moved into daily journalism a year later when the Tri-City Herald began publishing, and joined the Seattle Times in 1952. Surprisingly, he has little to say about the early days of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, although he later covered numerous nuclear-related stories. Williams’s science writing — and his book — seem to benefit from his lack of a scientific 442 OHQ vol. 119, no. 3 degree. (He is...

Tramps and Hobos: Adventure and Anguish in Mark Twain and Jack London

Abstract Hobos and tramps are everywhere in the works of Mark Twain and Jack London. Twain is a gentleman “tramp” in The Innocents Abroad (1872) and in A Tramp Abroad (1880), if not in Roughing It (1872). Certainly Twain's frontier upbringing, his teenage years wandering in the Midwest for apprentice newspaper and printing jobs, and his experiences on the river taught him hard truths, mostly about human character. London, son of the lower-middle working class of Oakland, California, always insisted that his call to writing happened before the Yukon, when as a hobo in 1892 he learned how to tell a tale interesting and tragic enough that it would earn him a handout. His book about his hoboing is The Road (1907), and he wrote related works. He believed his experiences on the Road and in prison for vagrancy revealed a way forward, to portray life in his writing as grimly as it was. London was able to apply his socialism to an imperial government in the observations he made while spending six weeks walking the streets as a member of the homeless and slum-dwellers in the heart of the great city of Empire. He made his first professional photographs for this book, The People of the Abyss (1903). He reveals a different life on a different sort of Road in a city, in many ways a worse road of despair than that of wanderers back home in the American West.

English in the Jordanian Context

The paper explores the status of English in Jordan as reflected in newspaper job advertisements (ads) published in 1985, 1995 and 2005, and English language documents in the educational domain. The study shows a steady increase in the percentage of English ads paralleled with a steady decrease in the percentage of Arabic ads. Further, it reports a significant increase in the percentage of ads that make English proficiency a precondition for employment. The study also shows a change in the jobs demanding English proficiency. The change in the size and headline of English ads over the years appears to be a variable reflecting the growing status of English. In educational documents circa 1969, teaching English was perceived as aiming at the production of a cultured, informed, useful and perceptive citizen. In 2005, English was seen as a means of attaining professional growth by all workers. The study also examines the growing status of English at higher education institutions.

Female employees find Iowa newspaper jobs satisfying

A survey of female employees at Iowa newspapers shows these journalists highly value their newspaper jobs because of the importance, variety, autonomy and flexibility of their positions. However, many complained about low pay and lack of opportunity for advancement.

‘A few years ago I thought it was fairly dead in the water’: newspaper printing, new media and job insecurity in Australia

The work of printers has been central to newspaper production for hundreds of years. In recent times, however, this work has been challenged by the emergence of new technologies and by the struggles of newspaper publishers to remain financially viable. Based on interviews with 20 newspaper printers in Australia, and grounded in a theoretical approach that emphasises job insecurity and precarity within the context of a socially embedded analysis of technological innovation, this paper asks (1) what do printers see as the future of their industry and (2) would they recommend newspaper printing as a career path to others. The printers we interviewed understand themselves to be in a precarious position. While they find many aspects of their craft rewarding, and would recommend newspaper printing as a career, they also recognise that changes in the contexts of newspapers pose a threat to the future of newspaper printing. At the same time, perceptions of the dimensions and severity of this threat are contested among the printers themselves, and need to be located within an understanding of longer term changes within the newspaper industry.

Core Skill Set Remains Same in Newspaper Job Ads

A content analysis of 238 newspaper job ads over a 27-yeai period shows that writing, print design and editing copy remained the top three desirable skills. The most recent ads seek employees who are deadline driven and showed attention to accuracy, multi-tasking and innovation.

Specialization Still Favored in Most Newspaper Jobs

This study compares survey data from 2009 to 2007 to determine the importance of role convergence. Findings indicate some convergence in the day-to-day operation of newspapers; however, jobs that still require specialized skills include reporters, editors and photographers.

EMPLOYERS' DEMAND FOR QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

ABSTRACT The paper attempts to empirically test skill demand on the Austrian labour market between 1985 and 2005 by making use of job advertisements. We analyze job advertisements covering a time span of 20 years. This allows us to examine whether there is a trend towards increased merit selection. Our empirical research is based on a content analysis of 975 newspaper job advertisements. We expand on the operationalization of education by looking at both educational level and field of study. Results indicate that jobs described in advertisements increasingly demanded various types of skill. Besides educational merits, other types of skills are also relevant in modern-day economies: social and personal skills. It is demonstrated that the driving force in changing demands is not only compositional change (with the expansion of high-skill demanding jobs), but also changes within occupational groups.

English in the Jordanian Context

ABSTRACT: The paper explores the status of English in Jordan as reflected in newspaper job advertisements (ads) published in 1985, 1995 and 2005, and English language documents in the educational domain. The study shows a steady increase in the percentage of English ads paralleled with a steady decrease in the percentage of Arabic ads. Further, it reports a significant increase in the percentage of ads that make English proficiency a precondition for employment. The study also shows a change in the jobs demanding English proficiency. The change in the size and headline of English ads over the years appears to be a variable reflecting the growing status of English. In educational documents circa 1969, teaching English was perceived as aiming at the production of a cultured, informed, useful and perceptive citizen. In 2005, English was seen as a means of attaining professional growth by all workers. The study also examines the growing status of English at higher education institutions.

It's My News Too! Online Journalism and Discriminatory Access to the Congressional Press Gallery

Since March 2007, dozens of newspapers have gone out of business entirely, and still others, like the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Capital Times, and the Christian Science Monitor have moved to the internet to stay afloat. Since 1990, a quarter of all American newspaper jobs have disappeared. Despite its three hundred year existence, the American newspaper is being devastated in the span of a decade. Meanwhile, the internet is becoming the go-to source for news, information, weather, movie reviews, and classified advertisements. Congress and the courts can no longer afford to relegate internet journalism to a second-class news medium. In Consumers Union v. Periodical Correspondence Association, the question arose as to the constitutionality of certain rules governing the issuance of press credentials to the congressional press galleries. In that case, based on separation of powers concerns, the court avoided the issue with the political question doctrine. Since then, many courts have taken a similar path when faced with the exclusion of a journalist from an established press facility. Given the switch from traditional print media to websites and Kindles, the question of who has access to the news becomes extremely important. This article will address several issues relating to the freedom of access to the Periodical Press Gallery. The first part of the article will briefly describe the history of the press and the history of congressional reporting leading up to the passage of the Periodical Press Gallery Rules. Part two of the article will describe the rules that govern admission to the Periodical Press Gallery as they exist today. Part three will describe the nature of the right afforded to journalists to access government buildings which have already been opened up to the press. Cases within this section challenge the denial of access to the White House, the Periodical Press Galley, and the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Discussion in this section will reveal how the D.C. Circuit Court has used the political question doctrine to avoid deciding these press gallery cases on their merits, while taking a deferential approach to denials from other established press pools. Because I believe that Consumers Union was wrongly decided, the final section will address how the courts should decide cases which stem from a denial of admission to the galleries. If the courts still refuse to decide these cases on nonjusticiability grounds, I will argue why Congress should unilaterally refine its rules to cabin the discretion of the Executive Committee and permit more online journalists to enter the Periodical Press Gallery. This section will describe how the current Press Gallery Rules act as an unconstitutional obstacle to the First Amendment rights of online journalists, as well as a Fifth Amendment violation of Due Process. Lastly, I will detail a few substantive amendments to the existing Rules which would provide for a fairer review of an online-journalist’s application.

CPD as a hyperbole: why don't employers mention it in managerial job adverts?

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to establish whether employers specify the requirement of CPD when recruiting managers and, in doing so, to open up the debate on the importance attached to CPD by employers.Design/methodology/approachAn observational analysis was undertaken of job advertisements placed in four regional newspapers and a national online job web site over a two‐month period (August and September 2006).FindingsFrom the newspaper job advertisements scrutinized none indicated CPD either directly or indirectly as a requirement for managerial jobs. Job experience (84 per cent) and personal attributes (82 per cent) were the most important requirements indicated for managerial jobs. An online national jobs web site, however, implied or specifically mentioned CPD for only five managerial posts.Research limitations/implicationsSome of the job advertisements provided very scant details. The study has only taken a surface view of the posts, as opposed to a detailed reviewing of the person specification for jobs. Targeting “Managers” focused on only middle level positions and even this could have excluded some posts.Practical implicationsThe lack of CPD evidence now challenges employers to consider the importance of CPD when preparing managerial job advertisements.Originality/valueThe paper highlights the gap between the value of CPD and its absence in job advertisements and discusses the impact of the findings on relevant stakeholder groups. It argues the need for employers to detail CPD implicitly or explicitly in job advertisements to enhance the quality of job applicants.

How far merit selection? Social stratification and the labour market1

The question of how societies allocate occupational positions and subsequent rewards has long been of interest to sociologists. According to one influential theory, the needs of modern industrial societies and economies demand that high-level and functionally important occupational positions are allocated according to meritocratic principles. I argue that, ultimately, employers get the final say about which characteristics are rewarded in the labour market. In order to examine which skills and attributes are required by employers for particular occupations I analyse data drawn from a content analysis of c.5000 British newspaper job advertisements. The results show that both merit and non-merit characteristics are requested by employers in job advertisements, even for occupations falling within the higher classes. I also find evidence that employers have similar requirements for similar occupations, cross-cutting class boundaries.

Caroline Lockhart (1871-1962)

For much of the twentieth century, Westerns were considered a male genre. Their heroes, authors, and themes were masculine. Recently, the study of gender issues in novels has become a fruitful academic discipline, and discussions of the genre have begun to include female authors of Westerns, especially those from the early days of the genre's development. During that time, writers such as Mary Hallock Foote, Frances McElrath, and B. M. Bower (Bertha Muzzy Sinclair) created their own visions of frontier society. Today, scholars rightly examine how these women structured the cowboy myth. One such author who met with a surprising amount of success in her time was Caroline Lockhart (1871-1962). Lockhart, whom H. L. Mencken called of the best humorists in the (Dominick 49), wrote seven novels between 1911 and 1933; three of these were made into films. While all of Lockhart's books were seen as western stories, they differed considerably from the genre's masculine template: they feature wit, a strong sense of place, and meaningful female characters. Additionally, her novels describe occupations such as cattle and sheep ranching, placer mining, and dude wrangling (perhaps the literary portrayal of this new industry). Necah Stewart Furman notes that Lockhart's novel, Me-Smith (1911), was a bestseller that the New York Times compared favorably to The Virginian (49). The Lady Doc (1912), her second, includes what Norris Yates labels the first unambiguous portrayal of a lesbian--and perhaps the unambiguous indication of an abortion--in American hardcover (Gender and Genre 44-46). Old West--and New (1933), her last, brought old-time cowboys into the twentieth century. As the genre evolved into the heavily symbolic gunfight scenario and Lockhart's books fell out of print, she focused less of her attention on fiction and more on her considerable outside interests. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caroline Lockhart was born in Eagle Point, Illinois, on February 24, 1871, the oldest daughter of Sarah and Joseph Lockhart. Joseph was a farmer, real estate developer, and cattle dealer who soon moved the family to a homestead in eastern Kansas. By the turn of the century, he would become one of the largest landowners in that state, but during Lockhart's childhood, the family alternately lived between Kansas and Illinois, where her mother's family lived and where the Lockharts owned a house. Later in her life, Lockhart would claim that her legitimacy as a writer of stories arose in part from being raised on a Kansas ranch, which was perhaps a slight exaggeration. After her mother's death in 1888, Lockhart was sent to boarding schools. She eventually ended up in Boston, where she flirted with a career on the stage. Soon, however, she got a job as a stunt girl writing feature stories for the Boston Post. Nellie Bly had recently created a sensation by going on adventures and writing about them, and papers around the country were scrambling to find engaging young women to follow her lead. Lockhart fit the bill: young, brash, beautiful, and self-confident. She went to the bottom of Boston Harbor in a diving suit, played baseball with the local professional team, jumped off an apartment building into a fire-safety net, and got herself committed to a Home for Intemperate Women to investigate conditions there. Lockhart loved the limelight, and she wrote with a charmingly self-absorbed style that brought her local fame. In 1897, she quit her newspaper job to travel, spending several months in New Mexico, but by 1900, she had resurfaced in a similar role at the Philadelphia Bulletin, where she wrote under the pen name Suzette. At this time, Lockhart started nurturing greater literary ambitions. She published short stories in popular magazines, including Lippincott's and McBride's, and started working on a novel based on her experiences in New Mexico. …

The boys done good

Davis started out as a copyboy and the Daily Express, an inauspicious beginning to a long and hugely successful career as a writer. Looking back, he writes: "Even if I changed my name to Murdoch or Rothermere, I wouldn't land a national newspaper job today. No chance. No university degree, you see. Most of my Fleet Street contemporaries of more than half-a-century ago also lacked this desirable qualification, yet were formidably well read and informed - more so than the graduate journalists of today, it seems to me. But then we did not have television, pop music and obsessive football to distract us from furnishing our minds." And he concludes: "Journalism, like acting and prostitution, is not a profession but a vocation. You either have what it takes or you don't, and general experience shows that some of the best journalists, those who can write and instinctively know what is news, began as copyboys or printers' devils."

Floyd Dell in Iowa

From 1910 until 1920 Floyd Dell was a major force in American literature, becoming a bellwether of literary experimentation. In Chicago he helped to fashion a midwestern resurgence of writing; later, in New York, he was at the center of the Provincetown Players who discovered Eugene O’Neill and invented modern American drama. Unfortunately for Dell, his fate for half a century has been to languish and be forgotten. Quem di diligunt adulescens moritur. His friends died young, thereby insuring their fame: John Reed died during the Russian Revolution, George Cook reached his apotheosis on the edge of Mount Olympus in Greece, and Randolph Bourne perished of disease. Dell died in 1969, virtually forgotten, meriting but a few seconds in Warren Beatty’s recent movie production of Reds (1981). Dell’s family exerted the strongest influence on his writing. He was born in Barry, Illinois, in 1887, the youngest son in a family of three brothers and a sister. His father, Anthony Dell, was an impecunious butcher who moved his family to the old river town of Quincy. It was there that Dell first felt the shame of being poor: as the family’s fortunes plummeted, the bric-a-brac table in the kitchen containing mementoes of earlier times became for him a symbol of lost respectability.1 In 1903 the family moved again, this time upriver to Davenport, Iowa. His mother, Kate Crone Dell, had been a country schoolteacher, and she encouraged her son to write. His father was a Civil War veteran whose tenuous connection to the Republican party helped his son get a newspaper job and protected the son after Dell had publicly joined the local Socialist party. Although Dell left Iowa in 1908, he returned to Davenport on numerous occasions. The death of his parents in the early 1920s seemed to shatter his career and he left for Europe in 1925 in order to write his