{"id":940,"date":"2012-07-16T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T20:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2012-07-16T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T20:50:45","slug":"my-adventures-in-journatics-new-media-landscape-of-outsourced-hyperlocal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"My adventures in Journatic&#8217;s new media landscape of outsourced hyperlocal news"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I was more offended, meanwhile, by the kindergarten quality of writing I witnessed from the Blockshopper writers. The most basic rules of spelling and grammar were violated and tortured on a regular basis. Some writers didn&#8217;t even understand the concept of inserting an article like &#8220;a&#8221; or &#8220;an&#8221; before a noun. I emailed my supervisor to complain and was told I should give them a break because they were from the Philippines. English may have not been their first language.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/jul\/06\/adventures-journatic-new-media-outsourced-hyperlocal-news\">My adventures in Journatic&#8217;s new media landscape of outsourced hyperlocal news | Ryan Smith | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The answer was no, and this phone call was the last straw for me. How could news stories with the Chicago Tribune&#8217;s banner on them follow journalistic practices that would make a high-school newspaper reporter blush?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was more offended, meanwhile, by the kindergarten quality of writing I witnessed from the Blockshopper writers. The most basic rules of spelling and grammar were violated and tortured on a regular basis. Some writers didn&#8217;t even understand the concept &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=940\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[103,102],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-journatic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}