Part-time digital engagement editor, Tahoe Tribune

Yeah, only 20 hrs./week. But I dare you to find a better commute.

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As long as that commute is only 15 minutes.

 

INSANE you are offering $20 an hour and 20 hours a week IN TAHOE! and requiring a Bachelors. Absolutely NUTS!!! They'd be better off looking for a high school student.

Seriously, they better hope a blackjack dealer who rakes is looking to transition into another field. The homeless people make more than this in Tahoe.

 

Well, it almost has to be, doesn't it.

 

It is absolutely infuriating to see these part-time positions at decent-sized outlets where they expect serious experience and education, and are wanting to only pay trash wages.

These fucking places get all the scorn and shitty work that they deserve.

 

The only way I could see that working might be as a remote situation, maybe a stay-at-home partner who's the second income. I didn't see anywhere that Tahoe residency was required.

Hey, I get a lot done from my couch. But no way in hell I'm doing it for $400/week.

 

You're supposed to have "a passion to grow our digital community" while making $400/week. Fuck. You.

 

Paging PickleJuice?

 

I've been out of the business for several years, and around 2021, I got a cold call from a former editor who was at a different paper and was hard up for a stringer to cover a high school football game. I really wasn't interested, but listened because we had a prior relationship.

He said they were willing to pay, for a game story and photos, for a game that was about 45 minutes away, the grand sum of $30. I was probably more polite than I should have been when I turned it down. He couldn't believe that $30 was a ridiculous price to expect someone to cover that for.

Anytime I get frustrated in my current non-newspaper world, I think of that.

 

That’s ridiculous. I covered high school games as a stringer right out of college and was paid $40 a game. And that was THIRTY YEARS AGO.

 

Exactly. He asked if I knew anyone I could recommend he reach out to, and I told him no way I'm going to give him a name for him to insult with an offer like that. Then he asked what he should be willing to pay - I told him the absolute lowest, given travel, photos and a story, would be $125, and probably have to go higher than that for a quality stringer. That ended the conversation.