While the Intercept now has one poor copy editor for the entire website, it employs two staff attorneys, as well as a legal fellow, a chief strategy officer, a chief digital officer, a business coordinator, a senior director of development and an associate director of development, a product manager, a senior director of operations, a chief of staff, and a chief operating officer. And for the first time in The Intercept’s history, as of Monday, the new editor-in-chief now answers to the CEO.
Part of me thinks any normal-ish decent-ish journalist who gets into media is exposed to “the machine” they either get ground down by it or they brake parts of themselves to fit into it. It’s a bummer
Ben Norton has talked about this in the past I think. Journalists either suck up to the machine and obey so they get promoted, or they keep their integrity and struggle to find work.
Sounds like a terminal case of administratium.
Part of me thinks any normal-ish decent-ish journalist who gets into media is exposed to “the machine” they either get ground down by it or they brake parts of themselves to fit into it. It’s a bummer
Ben Norton has talked about this in the past I think. Journalists either suck up to the machine and obey so they get promoted, or they keep their integrity and struggle to find work.