{"id":94,"date":"2015-07-03T21:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T21:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/?p=94"},"modified":"2015-07-03T21:30:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T21:30:30","slug":"complete-an-audit-of-independent-journalism-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/2015\/07\/03\/complete-an-audit-of-independent-journalism-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Complete an Audit of Independent Journalism Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Pocantico attendees said a grant-funded audit of journalism workers by an entity with credibility in the journalism industry, such as Neiman or Poynter, needs to be completed to document and expose (1) freelance reporter\/producer pay, rights, protections, benefits; and (2) staff reporter\/producer pay, benefits, workload and productivity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/506\/2015\/07\/Action-Audit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80\" src=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/506\/2015\/07\/Action-Audit.png\" alt=\"Action-Audit\" width=\"975\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/506\/2015\/07\/Action-Audit.png 975w, https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/506\/2015\/07\/Action-Audit-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/506\/2015\/07\/Action-Audit-768x306.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/a> The audit would detail all of these working conditions as well as document how these hamper the quality of the journalism being produced. The level of diversity among freelancers vis-\u00e0-vis staff journalists could also be assessed and the reasons for that.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is for the audit to be completed by late 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers to see this through are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jeff Yang<\/strong>, Columnist, Wall Street Journal online<\/li>\n<li><strong>Esther Kaplan<\/strong>, Editor, The Investigative Fund, The Nation Institute<\/li>\n<li><strong>Valeria Fernandez<\/strong>, independent journalist<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ricardo Sandoval-Palos<\/strong>, President Board of Directors, Fund for Investigative Journalism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Timeline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>June 30 \u2013 Identify potential partner\/sponsor<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Poynter, Pew, Glassdoor \u2013 Jeff Yang will contact<\/li>\n<li>Journalism schools \u2013 Valeria Fernandez will contact<\/li>\n<li>Knight at Stanford, Fund for Investigative Journalism, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Nieman Fellowships, other journalism schools \u2013 Ricardo Sandoval-Palos will contact<\/li>\n<li>The Nation Institute \u2013 Esther Kaplan will contact<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>July 30 \u2013 Outreach, gauge interest, build budget and plans \u2013 Jeff Yang and Ricardo Sandoval-Palos<\/p>\n<p>September \u2013 Blueprint and Team, Phase 1, 2, and 3 \u2013 Esther Kaplan, Valeria Fernandez, Jeff Yang, Ricardo Sandoval-Palos<\/p>\n<p>December \u2013 Funding, Phase 1<\/p>\n<p>Fall 2016 \u2013 Audit and Delivery<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please refer to<a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/2015\/07\/03\/not-free-as-in-beer-or-free-as-in-speech-free-as-in-lance-is-organizing-independent-journalists-a-game-changer\/\"> <strong>Not Free As In Beer or Free As In Speech, Free As In Lance: Is Organizing Independent Journalists A Game Changer?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Pocantico attendees said a grant-funded audit of journalism workers by an entity with credibility in the journalism industry, such as Neiman or Poynter, needs to be completed to document and expose (1) freelance reporter\/producer pay, rights, protections, benefits; and (2) staff reporter\/producer pay, benefits, workload and productivity. The audit would detail all of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-summary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}