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This is going to be an unpopular opinion here, but does a local Denver paper really need almost 200 journalists working for it? Reading the average mid-sized c

This is going to be an unpopular opinion here, but does a local Denver paper really need almost 200 journalists working for it? Reading the average mid-sized city paper, I'd assume they have about 40-50 reporters. Considering that I'd never heard anything about the Denver Post prior to all this discussion about it being harvested by "vulture capitalists", they don't seem to be doing anything exceptional. If it really takes 184 journalists to produce a daily newspaper of middling quality, is print journalism worth saving?

azemetre 9y ago
They've won and been nominated for multiple Pulitzer prizes, they aren't exactly middling quality. That's extremely unfair to label them as such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denver_Post#Pulitzer_Prizes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denver_Post#Pulitzer_Prize...
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- repolfx 9y ago
  Of those 9 prizes only two are related to actually reporting news. The rest are for cartoons or photography. The world is full of people giving away photos for free, and as for "editorial cartooning", well ... the world is also full of people being funny for free. Of the two prizes for news reporting both were for mass shootings that happened to take place locally. I am skeptical these prizes were awarded based on some objective evaluation of their reporting skill; the Pulitzer is probably just awarded on the basis of emotions. Like so much else in journalism, there are no systems worth a damn.
watwut 9y ago
> Considering that I'd never heard anything about the Denver Post prior to all this discussion about it being harvested by "vulture capitalists", they don't seem to be doing anything exceptional. ... middling quality ... Ugh. I dont know about it therefore it is bad?