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What makes for a productive reporter though? By the numbers, somebody cranking out 4 to 5 articles a day is super productive but we all know, well, not really. If those "articles" are rewritten press releases, nobody is going to pay much for them.

What a newspaper wants to do is find its sweet spot where you have better reporters spending more time writing articles that people want to read. You bump up staff numbers to get better coverage but don't go overboard.

 

"Do more with less."

 

Be a self-starter!

 

I never delivered, but I did go pick up newsroom staff in snow storms because I had a 4x4. That is until I asked if they were going to fix my truck if something happened. “Well, no. Don’t you have insurance?” “I’m no longer your shuttle.”

 

We don’t need to rehash all the bad newspaper management decisions of the past 30 years, but using “story counts” as the main way to gauge reporter productivity was among the worst.

 

Ryan of Ohio would be an excellent candidate. He ran a good campaign against Vance but didn't have a chance in that state. Can be the attack dog on Trump.

 

I was thinking JB Pritzker, the Illinois governor who has done a lot to clean up the balance sheet in his state. Ryan would be a good choice though. A bit more moderate than many progressives would like but has that blue collar populist-lite streak you want in a political brawl.

 

You know one way to figure out who the nominee should be? A primary election.

 

Some of them are.

But those Twitter accounts make money by sitting on every word Trump says. It's their reason for existing. Thankfully, other news outlets have more to cover.

 

Very early in my journalism career (and in the early aughts) I interviewed at a shop that a had a two-story-a-day quota for reporters. I was needing to relocate that geographic area for personal reasons. Thankfully, I got an offer from the daily the next county over and they had the more reasonable small daily expectation of one a day, with some relief while working on Sunday A1s or other projects.

I remember thinking at the time that the two-a-day quota was awful and I was glad to be able to turn that job down. I think about that often when I see the same bylines popping up multiple times a day on really thin stories for what were once decent quality newspapers.

 

What also can't be ignored is by all accounts he was losing before the debate anyway.