Comments on: Student Journalists’ Rewards: Salaried, Credited or Clipped?

By: Dan Reimold

Dan Reimold — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:21:31 +0000

*Absolutely.* Both comments right on. Money is a huge factor in motivating staff, especially seemingly to push productivity from student club levels to that on par with a job/first priority. It’s one of those cyclical things in collegemediatopia- the better/bigger outlets make money and thus can pay j-students who in turn make the outlets even bigger/better. It’s sad that most students worldwide who are paying their way through school do NOT receive any money for their work on a campus media outlet. And of course the worse the financial outlooks get, the more likely this debate about staff pay will come into play, unless of course micropayments or Bryan Murley or Obama saves the day before that!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:15:09 +0000

I agree with Mike. I wouldn’t have worked for the Emerald if they didn’t pay. Although the pay isn’t great, it did help cover beer, etc.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:33:21 +0000

There is another factor in play here: many of our students are putting themselves through school. It’s rather easy to say “it shouldn’t be about the money” when you don’t have to pay for everything yourself.

I see students here putting in 35-40+ hours a week in addition to 12+ credits. When would they have time for another job?