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The new ways to hire journalists

Source: The Guardian

Nov 05, 2009

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Can news organisations thrive in troubled times by using charity funding, amateurs and student interns?

Believe it or not, newspapers and news organisations are still hiring journalists - but not quite in the way they used to …

—The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which launched with a £2m grant in July, is using its charitable funds to hire up to 20 staff to carry out its investigations, as Journalism.co.uk reports.

—At the same time Newsquest's Brighton Argus has signed up journalism students from a local college to staff its 25 community news sites (via HTFP).

Is this how journalism will be conducted in the future: by amateurs, students and via charity handouts? Those worried about the erosion of professional journalism in the UK will hope not, but any realists who care about media holding authority to account (and maybe even making some money) should say, why not?

Like all UK newspaper publishers, Newsquest has reduced its workforce by hundreds in the past year — and by many hundreds over the past five years. With a stripped down staff it can't achieve i

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