Newspaper hires editor for “crowdsourcing”
From Muhammad Saleem at The Mu Life (who noticed the item on HTMKSteve’s blog), comes news of a paper in Connecticut that is looking to hire an editor to bring together “user-generated content” from the community. The classified ad at Journalism Jobs says:
The News-Times seeks someone with print and online skills to solicit, gather, assemble and strategically publish user-generated content on our Web site and in our niche publications… You will gather and compile everything from Little League pictures to prom photo galleries to audio/video narrations from veterans of war and undercover cops. Some writing will be required but that’s a minor part of the job.
As Muhammad — a top contributor to Digg and a paid contributor at Netscape — points out in his blog post, this is very similar to the kind of thing that “anchors” and editors at Netscape get paid ($1,000 a month) to do. And what is the pay scale for the News-Times job? It says just that it’s “negotiable.”
I wonder how long before the users who generate all that “user-generated content” are going to start asking the paper for their cut of the proceeds.
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