#tales of a newsroom worker
Text
Well… erm… looks like they’re having me transfer to another place near here. Not for any bad reason (I’d be getting a decent enough raise and it looks like I’d be dropping some extra work because bigger staff), but just was out of the blue. I’ll take it over other options obviously.
I can commute but I even know it’ll be ultimately a move if it stays long term. Of course they waited until after I could give my two months notice so I’ll have to pay extra unless I stay until December (which I’m still debating, as there’s fun stuff here I’d forget about and it’s an hour drive approx. and I’d actually get to have fun and not get behind a camera… plus I may be fed up in 8 months, want to leave and it’d save me an extra move.)
I think I’d become the pub, which is a step up technically (just a convoluted hierarchy… explaining the TARDIS would be easier).
••••••
One of the many interesting things in my town this week, which included a manhunt yesterday (which I didn’t realize until I remember said helicopters were used to protect the President George H.W. Bush’s funeral train in 2018 - yes I covered this procession) - covering some unusual events beyond this, and getting a card WITH a rubber duck on my car from someone wanting to fix my mostly barely noticeable hail damage. (I’ll give points creativity though).
I’m going to watch the Rockhounds in Midland tomorrow, which has me excited because I’ve missed any form of pro-baseball (they’re the A’s minor league team) and they’re fairly cheap (well to me compared to the Amarillo Sodpoodles). Do have to cover something tomorrow but it’s a fun event and co-worker attending offering to assist so I’ll let her.
And I’m making another key paracord bracelet but a more modern key someone gave me.
And taxes… gotta pay them.. shouldn’t be but I am. 🙄
7 notes
·
View notes
Text
Lunatic Moon Puts on an Eclipsing Show
The eclipse almost got eclipsed. Lousy jerk clouds were so jealous of the attention whore Moon blocking the Sun that they tried to ruin the view. But Jersey Shore-style drama was ultimately not imported from a place outside the totality. The Moon was free to moon us.
Aspiring lookers worried a once-in-a-lifetime event would be even one fewer than that. Missing the lack of sunshine would’ve been a twist during the soft reboot of an emblematically bleak tale. Circumstances seemed eerily similar to
that deflating Ray Bradbury short story everyone has a traumatic memory of reading about the cruel class locking the girl in the closet so she misses the rare Venusian sunshine. But the happy ending we’re told never happens appeared out of nowhere.
I traveled all the way outside to be in the route. My greatest worry was whether I thawed enough Pizza Logs for every guest. We always try to be hospitable in Buffalo. I noticed how many out-of-state license plates partially concealed bumpers in the days leading up to the solar system show. Adventurous travelers took a chance on meteorological fate with a trip to the Queen City of Good Neighbors. The prospect of never getting a gift from the cosmos beat definitely not seeing it in some crescent-cursed state.
The skies weren’t blotted by a blizzard, so we dodged the worst-case scenario. I’d like to point out howling snow is an April rarity. Still, Buffalo residents braced to be disappointed by something other than teams or taxes. As for the shamefully high latter, politicians are so certain they know how to spend better than people who earn money that they take a cut just to prevent frivolous purchases. Take eclipse supplies. Many sites offered “free” glasses that taxpayers would’ve just bought with their own money if left to their unfettered devices. Visitors wondered why there was ample elbow room around commercial zones.
Existing area establishments celebrated the spacey occurrence by not selling anything. Everything closed while the skies opened. My indispensible neighborhood liquor store shuttered while the Moon was drunk, which means those who wanted to get eclipsed had to plan ahead. And even Tim Hortons took a rare break from brewing so workers could look wide-eyed through filters. How did eclipse viewers stay jittery? I hope meth dealers were shrewd enough to stay open.
Precautions against never seeing again seemed to work. Concerns about going blinfndsxvnjds wrrrervfwe ,a,,h/nxxc. My helper monkey has kindly stepped in to type dictations until my eyes stop feeling like I doused them with lava. Anthony is an idiot.
I’m trying to remember the astronomical facts I crammed over the past week, but I fret they’ll vanish from my memory like safety warnings for watchers. In my defense, it was tough to retain endless tips for ensuring spectators weren’t seeing the last thing they ever would.
Some alerts sounded like newsrooms sponsored contests to determine who could make the daftest admonition seem plausible. Most notably, owners of fancy wireless pocket phones were advised to not point the cameras where they were looking or the implements could go blind, too. You could make up any claim you’d like about where to aim eyes and get nervous participants to heed it. I’m pretty sure you couldn’t glance at a waxed car unless you wanted your eyeballs to melt. You won’t see them.
I tried to be as prepared as I was enthusiastic. It was as a good day for donning NASA socks as any this lifetime. To complement my festive wardrobe in practical terms, I made eclipse viewer from a cereal box just like Mrs. Benfanti taught me in third grade before a previous Moon-based incident. Interstellar experts recommend eating the Cheerios first.
A fun throwback of seeking entertainment by looking outside reminded us what it was like not to be glued to glowing pocket screens. The heavens should always be this entertaining. Keep staring outside for as long as it’s compelling. Your DVR retained its content unless lunar rays disrupted recording that episode of The Office. Creed doesn’t get fired on Halloween, so don’t worry. Television is probably crisper than the sky appeared but not as magical.
I spent most of Monday afternoon seeing the eclipse, sort of. The worst possible hours for overcast conditions seemed to embody the way things go on this rather uncooperative planet. I coped by planning to check out the spectacle next century presuming the weather obeys.
An eclipse where you can’t see the Sun for different reasons than advertised seemed like a lesson. The worst part of cloudy weather during the eclipse was my lack of surprise. The hometown of Rick James, Vincent Gallo, and me often seems like the place where fate disappoints.
Not being allowed to look presented little problem. A cruelly overcast day meant seeing some sort of blur through the real-life 3D glasses. Everyone was failing the eye test. Light at the end of the tunnel doesn’t provide much hope when it’s so splotchy.
But a transformation as amazing as queuing celestial objects redeemed what felt like a pending letdown. My journalism degree didn’t allow me to determine whether the totality overwhelmed puny clouds in its path or if they parted out of karmic mercy. Either way, the darkness led to lucidity.
The cosmic ballet compensated for tardiness. Blazing plasma surrounded the perfect black circle. For four glorious minutes or so, the fiery halo was the only clue that the Sun was still around. The only way the sudden penumbra coda could have been more satisfying was if it seemed like the advertised event wouldn’t be visible, so thank existence’s scriptwriters. You worried it was going to be cloudy for the whole eclipse, but the skies cleared at just the right time. Buffalo teaches about the universe.
Monday featured quite a night in the afternoon. We shared an incredible moment of all looking at the same alignment alongside. The eclipse offered a chance for people of all kinds to get together for gazing and realize we hate each other. Now, we share both animosity and liking that disappearing sunlight trick that one satellite pulled.
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
2019-01-15 Daybook
I will have a tremendous backlog for WFD when I get back from China.
:::
Gender and the evaluation of humor at work | Evans et al find that who makes a joke matters:
Although research has added to our understanding of the positive and negative effects of the use of humor at work, scholars have paid little attention to characteristics of the humor source. We argue that this is an important oversight, particularly in terms of gender. Guided by parallel constraint-satisfaction theory (PCST), we propose that gender plays an important role in understanding when using humor at work can have costs for the humor source. Humor has the potential to be interpreted as either a functional or disruptive work behavior. Based on PCST, we argue that gender stereotypes constrain the interpretation of observed humor such that humor expressed by males is likely to be interpreted as more functional and less disruptive compared to humor expressed by females. As a result, humorous males are ascribed higher status compared to non-humorous males, while humorous females are ascribed lower status compared with non-humorous females. These differences have implications for subsequent performance evaluations and assessments of leadership capability. Results from an experiment with 216 participants provides support for the moderated mediation model. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
#wfd
:::
The five trademarks of agile organizations | Even McKinsey is wising up to the postnormal 'revolutionary' organization, although they fall down the 'agile' rabbit hole -- but note they do have a section of the old hierarchy labeled 'bureaucracy'!
#wfd
:::
CES 2019: A Show Report – Learning By Shipping | comprehensive CES report
read later
:::
Tech Workers Unite to Fight Forced Arbitration | WIRED | Nitasha Tiku writes about Googlers for Ending Forced Arbitration, who are launching an awareness campaign:
“Ending forced arbitration is the gateway change needed to transparently address inequity in the workplace,” the group wrote in a blog post on Medium.
[...]
Tanuja Gupta, a Google employee and one of the organizers behind the Google Walkout, says the group evaluated the contracts they received against three criteria: that arbitration be optional; that employees be allowed to bring class actions; and that employees be allowed to speak out about their claim. “When we went through what people sent us, no [company] was able to meet those three criteria,” she says.
The cartel must be countered for industry change to happen.
:::
So, What Really Happened To The Cauldron? – The Cauldron | A harrowing tale of a media startup's rise and crash.
:::
The Tactics Media Unions Are Using to Build Membership
Union membership as a share of the workforce in the United States has fallen to its lowest point in 80 years, but news media workers have bucked the trend, winning union recognition at roughly 30 digital news sites since 2015 and in numerous other traditional newsrooms. In total, the number of unionized workers in internet publishing has risen 20-fold since 2010. The unions representing media workers have achieved this through painstakingly old-fashioned union organizing: they have embraced the mantra of effective bargaining, though they have presented it in a new and technologically shiny package. For labor leaders in other industries, especially those where union membership is declining, the lesson is that union revival depends on aggressive representation.
read later
:::
No boss? No thanks. Why managers are more important than ever. | Nicolai Foss and Peter Klein go after 'bosslessness' as 'one of the biggest new management fads'.
Unfortunately, the bossless-company narrative is dead wrong. It misunderstands the nature of management, which isn’t going away, and it is based on questionable evidence. Given these fundamental defects, this narrative is potentially harmful to managers, students and policymakers.
My thoughts at Its Bosses All The Way Down.
#wfd
:::
Humans: The Domesticated Primates | Humans are less violent that our closest relative, chimps. What happened?
The answer lies in the evolutionary pressures that selected against aggression, particularly in men. The cultural anthropologist Christopher Boehm has found that, in hunter-gatherer societies, a man who threatens others by having too violent a temper is treated in a consistent way. If the bully can’t be contained by the cajoling effects of ridicule or ostracism, the other men reach a consensus, make a plan and execute him. Over the eons, the long-term practice of killing unrepentant aggressors must have favored genes for more peaceful behavior.
No other mammal has the brainpower to organize capital punishment. When language became sufficiently sophisticated, our ancestors’ ability to conspire led not only to a more peaceful species but also to a new kind of hierarchy. No longer would human groups be ruled by the physical force of an individual. The emergence of capital punishment meant that henceforth, anyone aspiring to be an alpha couldn't get away with just being a fighter. He had to be a politician, too.
We invented capital punishment for the meanest ones, and culled them from the bloodline.
:::
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
All You Need to Know about Adobe Advertising Cloud Search Business Practitioner Professional Certification
Adobe Advertising Cloud Search Business Practitioner Professional Certification Exam Credential of higher education and The yarn of alms serve our readers with insights and information to support them to prevail in a rapidly altering apple. day by day, our staff participants bring experience, expertise, and a commitment to quality to this crucial assignment. We searching for to employ gifted people whose contributions will carry forward our mission.
together with a accommodating and collaborative work environment, we present aggressive salaries and excellent benefits; including five weeks of vacation per year, a generous retirement plan, and comprehensive health benefits.
We inspire candidates to review our posted jobs beneath and publish a résumé for positions of interest. every résumé it s submitted for an inaugurate position may be cautiously advised. Candidates whose backgrounds most intently suit the requirements of the job might be contacted without delay.
We trust our missions are best served by using a diverse, multi-generational team of workers with dissimilar lifestyles adventures and perspectives.
The myth is proud to be an according possibility organisation, and we re committed to developing a diverse assignment ambiance. All certified candidates will get hold of consideration for employment devoid of regard to chase, colour, faith, gender, gender id or expression, animal acclimatization, countrywide beginning, genetics, incapacity, age, or adept fame.
The myth of greater education is searching for an entrepreneurial anchorman to explain how both high-tech and low-tech innovations are changing the school event for college kids and faculty. This reporter will determine rising ideas, approaches, and tools acclimated on campuses – together with huge statistics, outsourcing, and surveillance – and examine their successes, adventitious consequences, and pitfalls.
Your work will acquaint an audience of campus leaders who accomplish vital choices about trade at their institutions. it will additionally are trying to find to attain an audience of advisers and pupil-affairs body of workers who deserve to have in mind the implications of the adjustments occurring round them. and it will ask important questions in regards to the diploma to which innovations serve the missions of associations and people of greater education at colossal.
The anchorman who excels at this work is each a techniques thinker and an empath, someone with a adroitness for recognizing trends after which abutting them to real americans. This grownup can be desperate to become a accessible-dealing with professional bearing assignment in dissimilar platforms and media — including news and have accessories, newsletters, longform reviews, and are living and virtual activities.
The premier applicant has at the least two years of event covering and demystifying a sector. familiarity with larger-schooling concerns, chiefly the pupil and faculty adventure andor campus addition and technology, is a plus. You’ll deserve to be cocky-inspired, desirous to acquire action, and skilled at framing journalism for a country wide audience.
The legend is apart owned and primarily based in Washington, D.C. Our pay is adequate with event, and our advantages are among the many most fulfilling in the enterprise.
If this sounds just like the area you want to accomplish your mark, send a cover letter, résumé, clips, and three brief pitches for memoir ideas on the beat to resumesfablem.
The tale of higher education and The tale of alms seek a creative and enthusiastic engagement producer to assignment on the front lines of our becoming editorial viewers team.
As engagement producer, you’ll play a pivotal position in helping two publications, each with uncommonly gleaming and dedicated audiences, reach new readers and turn occasional readers into loyal ones. You’ll manage our fellow-media presence with articulation and action, music viewers-engagement metrics, moderate dialogue groups and engage with readers, immediate readers to talk about memoir reports and products, and aid train a staff of journalists to extend the attain of their work. From Day One, you’ll be doing standard work to support two acclaimed, highly collaborative newsrooms widen their audiences, construct adherence, and actualize price for subscribers.
0 notes
Text
This edition (Thursday) marks my 260th paper here.
That’s five years of weekly papers.
If I counted specials like Christmas and Graduation separate, it’s 272 as I’ve done five each of the those plus a Best of Town awards section and one for Amendments.
It’s going to be an interesting one for sure… lots of sports and photo stories, kind of ironic when I moved here from a job that was primarily photography.
4 notes
·
View notes
Link
New York Submit to Workers: Keep Away From CNN, MSNBC, New York Instances and Washington Submit CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Submit and The New York Instances are among the many information organizations that President Trump has falsely labeled “pretend information.” And now articles primarily based on reporting from the 4 retailers are now not welcome at Rupert Murdoch’s New York Submit, in response to three journalists who work there. Excessive-level editors at The New York Submit instructed employees members this week to not use reporting from CNN, MSNBC, The Instances and The Washington Submit as the only foundation for any Submit article, the three journalists stated, talking on the situation of anonymity for concern of retaliation. A Submit spokeswoman declined to remark. It’s common follow at The New York Submit and its web site, nypost.com, to publish articles primarily based totally on different information retailers’ reporting, with out unbiased affirmation by a Submit journalist. The Submit isn’t alone in following this widespread follow, and lots of information websites have had success by repackaging materials from different information organizations. The directive on the Murdoch tabloid was uncommon in that it deemed materials from sure retailers off limits. The order was handed down by Michelle Gotthelf, the editor in chief of nypost.com, and part editors, the three Submit journalists stated. Submit journalists who now spot a report on the 4 forbidden retailers that they suppose is value writing up should now do some reporting earlier than they go to the keyboard. Why did The Submit single out these 4 retailers and never, say, Selection or CBS Information? The three journalists stated no clarification had been given, however they added that the rationale didn’t must be detailed. CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Submit and The Instances are seen as liberal throughout the Murdoch empire, which is residence to Fox Information and Fox Enterprise, cable networks that had been instrumental to the rise of President Trump. To publish articles primarily based on the work of these organizations wouldn’t match The Submit’s right-leaning id, the journalists stated. That id has gone by means of whiplash adjustments in latest months. Throughout many of the 2020 election, below the steerage of the senior adviser Col Allan, a former editor in chief of The Submit who was having a newsroom comeback after roughly 40 years at Murdoch papers, the paper went all in for Mr. Trump and typically belittled his rivals. Within the last days of the marketing campaign, when Mr. Trump appeared headed for defeat, the tabloid’s tone shifted. A Submit article printed shortly earlier than Election Day reported that the president was making the “unfounded declare that political foes had been making an attempt to steal the election.” Mr. Allan, who was as soon as seen carrying a Make America Nice Once more cap within the newsroom, introduced that he would retire. Because the president continued to push his false declare that the election had been rigged, and his fervent followers backed him with cries of “Cease the steal,” The Submit appeared to make a pointy break, publishing a Dec. 27 front-page editorial headlined “Cease the Madness.” The editorial blasted Mr. Trump over his refusal to simply accept the election end result and advised him to “finish this darkish charade.” The ban on articles primarily based on the work of CNN, MSNBC, The Instances and The Washington Submit was ordered days after a mob incited by the president stormed the Capitol constructing. The information media was a secondary goal of the antigovernment agitators. Amid the violence, Trump loyalists chanted, “CNN sucks,” and MSNBC journalists stated they’d made positive to not show MSNBC-identifying markers on their gear or clothes. Over the weekend, high-level editors expressed dissatisfaction with The Submit’s protection of Mr. Trump, the three journalists stated. The editors pointed to an article printed on Saturday primarily based on a CNN report that Vice President Mike Pence had not dominated out utilizing the twenty fifth Modification to oust Mr. Trump from workplace. One other instance of The Submit’s reliance on materials from the now-off-limits retailers was additionally printed on Saturday — an article that credited The Washington Submit for its reporting on a memo from the Senate majority chief, Mitch McConnell. The Submit is short-staffed, the three journalists stated. Some reporters write 5 or extra articles a day. That’s partly what makes them flip to the work of different retailers. Mr. Allan will name it a profession in March, and The Submit and its web site could have a brand new high editor: Keith Poole, a British journalist properly versed within the methods of Fleet Avenue journalism. Mr. Poole was a digital editor at The Each day Mail, a website identified for its endless-scroll tales of superstar espresso runs, earlier than he joined the Murdoch empire because the digital editor of the London tabloid The Solar in 2016. Supply hyperlink #CNN #MSNBC #post #Staff #Stay #Times #Washington #York
0 notes
Last Seen Blogs
joyfulinternetdestiny
Untitled
glaivenoct
I believe in you. I always have.
clansocreations
Claire, podcaster disaster
deadnationrp
DEAD NATION
minuteandco
Minute & Co