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Journalists paid by "likes"
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:28 pm
by FlammableFlower
Telegraph is considering linking journalists pay to the
popularity of their articles.
I can't see any unforeseen outcomes, especially in the current political climate...
Re: Journalists paid by "likes"
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:59 pm
by Bird on a Fire
Assessing the value of article-writers' careers according to easily gamed engagement metrics?! Disgraceful. Who do they think they are, academics?
Re: Journalists paid by "likes"
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:12 pm
by Allo V Psycho
Bird on a Fire wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:59 pm
Assessing the value of article-writers' careers according to easily gamed engagement metrics?! Disgraceful. Who do they think they are, academics?
OK BoaF, you made me laugh there
Re: Journalists paid by "likes"
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:22 am
by FlammableFlower
Bird on a Fire wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:59 pm
Assessing the value of article-writers' careers according to easily gamed engagement metrics?! Disgraceful. Who do they think they are, academics?
Arf, that's a good one
Re: Journalists paid by "likes"
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:42 pm
by bjn
Hasn't it always been like that, but mediated by circulation figures, market surveys and all that sort of analogue age stuff?
Re: Journalists paid by "likes"
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:04 pm
by FlammableFlower
Not sure on the detail, but I thought before it was less directly linked. Before, popular journos/writers could negotiate better pay, now the link is being more directly and rapidly made. It's now being fed steroids.
Re: Journalists paid by "likes"
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:13 pm
by headshot
Similar to a theatre company I know of that only offers auditions to people that have more than 10,000 followers on social media. Bobbins.
Re: Journalists paid by "likes"
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:35 pm
by dyqik
They're all probably already doing something not too far from this, with page impressions on websites. But meditated by common* sense of editors etc.
Re: Journalists paid by "likes"
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:21 pm
by Bird on a Fire
headshot wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:13 pm
Similar to a theatre company I know of that only offers auditions to people that have more than 10,000 followers on social media. Bobbins.
You can buy 10,000 social media followers for a few quid, so that's a really stupid way of making theatre more elitist without actually filtering candidates usefully.
Re: Journalists paid by "likes"
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:57 pm
by headshot
Bird on a Fire wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:21 pm
headshot wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:13 pm
Similar to a theatre company I know of that only offers auditions to people that have more than 10,000 followers on social media. Bobbins.
You can buy 10,000 social media followers for a few quid, so that's a really stupid way of making theatre more elitist without actually filtering candidates usefully.
Yyyyup. Also, why would even having 10,000 legit followers make someone a suitable/talented candidate?
Re: Journalists paid by "likes"
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:01 pm
by Bird on a Fire
headshot wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:57 pm
Bird on a Fire wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:21 pm
headshot wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:13 pm
Similar to a theatre company I know of that only offers auditions to people that have more than 10,000 followers on social media. Bobbins.
You can buy 10,000 social media followers for a few quid, so that's a really stupid way of making theatre more elitist without actually filtering candidates usefully.
Yyyyup. Also, why would even having 10,000 legit followers make someone a suitable/talented candidate?
I mean, the first thing I do after watching a good play is follow all the cast members on Instagram. Doesn't everyone?
Re: Journalists paid by "likes"
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:33 pm
by Squeak
headshot wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:57 pm
Bird on a Fire wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:21 pm
headshot wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:13 pm
Similar to a theatre company I know of that only offers auditions to people that have more than 10,000 followers on social media. Bobbins.
You can buy 10,000 social media followers for a few quid, so that's a really stupid way of making theatre more elitist without actually filtering candidates usefully.
Yyyyup. Also, why would even having 10,000 legit followers make someone a suitable/talented candidate?
On the unsupportable assumption that those 10,000 followers are real, I guess it makes your advertising strategy somewhat easier. A cast of ten gives you a list of several tens of thousands (assuming a lot of duplicates) of followers interested in seeing as least one cast member perform.