young reporters

Rebecca MacKinnon is talking about “young reporters that are just there for a few years while they work their way up the rungs”. Vacancies in Vacaville, from the American Journalism Review, talks more about that:

Barney wants this symbiotic relationship to last two years, about the average stay for young reporters and copy editors who come to Vacaville. “The first year is an investment,” she says. “The second year we reap the benefit of that investment.”

Mannes’ career plans fit that timeline. “Ideally, I will work here for between a year and a half and two years and get some great clips…. Then I’ll move to a more reputable paper, a more well-known paper. Part of it is that it’s very hard to live on this income.”

A person just replied, “it’s an episodic issue.”