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Article: Vacancies in Vacaville...and at other small papers throughout the country. Young journalists are increasingly reluctant to work long hours for low pay in less-than-glamorous locales. The result: high turnover and empty desks.
- Article from:
- American Journalism Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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Diane Barney, editor of the Vacaville Reporter, has to be the most optimistic person in American journalism. Her glass is never half-empty. Forget challenges. Focus on opportunities. Bring on the clouds. Bring on the silver linings.
In 2001, 50 percent of Barney's eight-person news reporting staff left the paper. Was Barney frustrated? Depressed? Angry? "It would be very easy to have a little pity party every time somebody leaves," she says, "but I try to look at it as an opportunity to bring somebody new in who's going to have new ideas, excitement, enthusiasm."
Her story could be a TV plot line: Passionate editor of award-winning, small-town paper ...