Digiday reports that the mavens (actually, just Marc Benioff, not THOSE Maven-s, nor Meredith) at Time Magazine are selling a tiered membership plan.
Top tier? $20,000 a year.
But WAIT! That's not ALL! You also get a trip to Davos.
Surprised that Steve Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell, missed out on this with Atlantic going behind a paywall.
You could have a $20,000 top tier membership with an invite to Apple's WWDC, the Worldwide (guess two W's is as cool as calling what should be about OS 12 as still OS X) Developers Conference.
But, back to Time.
The other membership tiers?
Seems like Time is trying to buy / bribe people with insider status somewhere to be their version of Instagram influencers.
Per the link, it's clear that's what Forbes is doing.
But, let's not limit it to Time, Atlantic and Forbes.
There's plenty of opportunities here.
Bloomberg Business? Contribute $1 million through a super PAC and you can be President Michael Bloomberg's Treasury Secretary.
Any newspaper owned by CNHI? Contribute $20,000 and get a week of free furlough every quarter.
The remnants of Gawker? Contribute $100,000 and get a free hippy punching of Peter Thiel plus 100 hours of free criminal defense lawyer service.
The Bulwark? Contribute $100,000 and get a super-duper NeverTrump ad and cookies blocker on all devices, plus lifetime free trips to Chez Netanyahu.
The Intercept? Contribute $10,000 plus a special memo with secret encryption to Glenn Greenwald and get to have him (accidentally?) reveal the encryption.
You get the idea.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Thursday, July 20, 2017
More vampirism in the newspaper industry
I've seen it outside the forty-fourth estate, but it is apparently starting to catch on inside, too.
"It" is a newspaper trying to get as detailed a past salary history as it can from you as early in the process — as in as part of the application — as it can.
Via Journalism Jobs, I believe it was, a while back, I saw a Virginia newspaper saying that W-2s from previous work were part of the hiring process. I found that paper's Twitter account and told it what place it could find to file those W-2s.
Then, the growing Community Impact group. Its web-based application asks for salary at each previous spot. I had had two jobs with it pop up off of one of my job search engines. I had started applying for the higher-level one when I saw this. So, I put in $1 per week/month/year on each job.
And didn't apply for the other position.
These folks are relying on a mix of a still weak job market (don't listen to Janet Yellen at the Fed), an ongoingly weak newspaper market, slick branding of "we're new and different" (with Community Impact), and masochists in the biz who don't want to leave.
I DO!
But, that's another story.
"It" is a newspaper trying to get as detailed a past salary history as it can from you as early in the process — as in as part of the application — as it can.
Via Journalism Jobs, I believe it was, a while back, I saw a Virginia newspaper saying that W-2s from previous work were part of the hiring process. I found that paper's Twitter account and told it what place it could find to file those W-2s.
Then, the growing Community Impact group. Its web-based application asks for salary at each previous spot. I had had two jobs with it pop up off of one of my job search engines. I had started applying for the higher-level one when I saw this. So, I put in $1 per week/month/year on each job.
And didn't apply for the other position.
These folks are relying on a mix of a still weak job market (don't listen to Janet Yellen at the Fed), an ongoingly weak newspaper market, slick branding of "we're new and different" (with Community Impact), and masochists in the biz who don't want to leave.
I DO!
But, that's another story.
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