Comments on: Hyperlocal start-up in Eastern Mass.

By: Peter Porcupine

Peter Porcupine — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:21:58 +0000

Hmmm….maybe I WILL quit the day job…

By: Sue O'Connell

Sue O'Connell — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:09:58 +0000

It’s impossible to judge those salaries as fair or exploitive without know the expected operating budget and expected revenue and circ projections. Plus, staff size, range of duties, etc. And remember, print is still making more revenue than web.

By: Local Reporter

Local Reporter — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:39:33 +0000

Mock it all you want, but that’s a pay raise for most community reporters around Boston.

And trust me, Patricia, we find a way to make it work.

By: lkcape

lkcape — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:01:47 +0000

“…smacks of exploitation…”

And your solution to the problem?

By: LFNeilson

LFNeilson — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:32:46 +0000

Must be willing to relocate to the area? Either they’re counting on extreme hunger blinding the applicant’s fiscal sense or they’re looking for someone willing to live in a cardboard box. Granted, there are plenty of unemployed editors and reporters out there, but this smacks of exploitation.

By: Local Editor

Local Editor — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:34:45 +0000

I hate to admit it, but those salaries are more than competitive.

By: Dan Kennedy

Dan Kennedy — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:58:10 +0000

Patricia: Salaries have not kept up. Not even close.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:18:16 +0000

Still … for those salaries, you either have to be living at home with your parents or be married to someone making at least twice as much.

I plugged my salary for 1989 — the last year I worked for a community newspaper in eastern Massachusetts — into an online inflation calculator and I got quite a bit more than $35,000.