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New York magazine's feature on NY Times business reporter/Dealbook blogger/all-around wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin reports, "Sources say he earns $250,000, including a bonus that is based, in part, on the financial performance of the various DealBook properties (Sorkin disputes the number, but won’t be more specific). He is among the highest-paid staffers at the paper." Gawker, which is waiting for a comment from Sorkin, reads it this way: "Sounds an awful lot like a pageview bonus to us. Which is an ugly practice that distorts news judgment and induces reporters to chase down attention-grabbing and salacious gossip rather than substantive information and is the province of unscrupulous blogs that are killing journalism. And also the New York Times, apparently."
Times Reporter's $250K Salary
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wait, gawker is criticizing this 'pageview bonus' because it encourages "attention-grabbing and salacious gossip rather than substantive information"?!
this salary witch hunt is getting ridiculous. all we need to worry about is that the lowest rungs get fair deals and that certain industries aren't making un-fair profits. good on him for negotiating a great contract.
bwahahah! Sorry, couldn't read past the point where Gawker seems to be advocating an ethical position...and on pageview incentives, no less! Have to RTFA, it must be an exercise in irony or something.
Oh..I get it now. When Gawker comes face to face with the idea that the NY-effin'-Times is starting to behave more like, well, Gawker, it's an existential moment for them. How can you laugh and poke fun at the orthodox guardians of the 4th estate when the credibility dries up? Gawker doesn't ACTUALLY want to be Us Weekly or People. They NEED the NYT on that wall. No one's hurt more by the loss of the boardsheets' credibility than snarky dilettantes with pretenses of poseur irony.