Journalism school honours HuffPo founder though she doesn't pay journalists
Simon Dumenco of Advertising Age writes a scorching column about the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University giving a lifetime achievement award to Arriana Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post.
Really, the school -- which exists to train journalists -- should know better than to honor a woman who thinks journalists should work for free!It is well known that Huffington has built her reputation and business (estimated by some to be valued at $200 million) on a model wherein contributors are paid with "visibility".
I've been raging about HuffPo's devaluation of content -- and, ergo, content creators -- since late 2007, when HuffPo co-founder Ken Lerer told USA Today the company had no plans to ever pay its bloggers: "That's not our financial model. We offer them visibility, promotion and distribution with a great company."
posted by D. B. Scott at
2:28 pm
3 Comments:
"Visibility, promotion and distribution."
You could get these by selling Tupperware instead -- and get paid for it too!
nah, I'd rather sell Amyway products
How can she on the one hand justify the value of paying $40,000+ per year for a journalism education at SU, and with the other hand give an award to someone who thinks so little of journalists' skills that she refuses to pay them for their work and equates "visibility, promotion and distribution" with compensation?
Is that the kind of journalism world in which she sees her graduates making their careers?
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