The (Cheap) New Journalism

This post was written by guest blogger Marc Lallanilla, who writes his own fab blog over HERE:

You can add the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Hearst newspaper, to the growing list of papers that are going bye-bye, and will probably soon exist online only.

But this none-too-brave new world has room for only a few inhabitants, and they're gonna have to eke out a living under a grueling job environment. One P-I staffer, among the few chosen to participate in the online restructuring, was given an offer that "increased his health insurance cost, cut his salary by an unspecified amount ... required him to forgo his P-I severance pay, reduced his vacation accrual to zero and required him to give up overtime." Sweet!

All this from the family that gave us Citizen Kane, Xanadu and a gun-toting Patty Hearst. (I kind of miss her now, don't you?)

Come back, Patty. We need you!