From a letter:
Assistant city editor and former reporter Angela Green is leaving the PJS mid-May. She announced her departure on Facebook this week and is heading to the Alzheimer Association in Peoria. Again, the newspaper is losing institutional knowledge, experience and a steady hand on the desk. But, what does GateHouse care? It’s just one less salary on their expense sheet.From what I understand, the newsroom has become a depressing place to work.
Depressing? I started hearing this almost as so0on as GateHouse took over. But yeah, I’d be depressed too.
This blog is ECLECTIC. Mostly, I write about politics and media. Sometimes, I post a funny cartoon. Sometimes I post pictures of pretty girls. I am baffled as to why people who visit this blog regularly complain about this.
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The PJStar completely ignored (or hid it well) news that local airline passenger and air freight business is up 10% and 22%, respectively.
The Peoria blogosphere is in many ways superior to the PJStar, since both can get most news from the same sources. So perhaps, Billy, you should consider dumping the left-wing, anti-religion content and covering local stories in depth? Just a thought.
Btw Billy, Angela Green’s lawyer will be contacting you shortly. Calling her a chicken was sexist and degrading and is causing her emotional stress.
I will tell Angela what I tell everyone trying to sue me: I have no money. I have no property. Will throw myself at the mercy of the court and let the attorney try to collect.
And more seriously, David. I have a site called The Blog Peoria Project (http://blogpeoria.com). Right now, I am filling it with daily comic strips, state news from Illinois State House News and Capitol Fax, press releases from city and county government, press releases from local politicians, “now playing” announcements, and excerpts from Blog Peoria bloggers (such as yourself).
The fun part is the original reporting I occasionally do on the site. I try to get down to the police office to gather a police blotter report daily. But I have a day job that prevents me from doing as much of it as I would like. We’re I unemployed, I’d have time to do the blotter report, cover the Peoria City Council, Peoria County government, and start covering Peoria School District 150 (I’d take a more balanced view that the other PSD150 bloggers).
And I’d supplement this with more original reporting.
I’d also buy a camera and start doing photo essays.
The trick is figuring out how to get paid to do all of this.
I’m getting about 300 page views daily at The Blog Peoria Project. And it’s growing. That’s not nearly enough NOW to make a lot of revenue from Google Adsense. I can always sell ads, but I find that revenue from ad sales comes and goes. It certainly requires almost a full time commitment of time to sell even $200 in ads a month.
I could FILL my blog with every single ad network scheme out there, but the result is ugly and risks running dangerous malware infected graphics.
I’n order to quit my job, I’ll need to be supported by a sponsor or a handful of sponsors willing to put at least $20,000 into my pocket every year while I get readership high enough to start making money vie Google ads and original ad sales. It would take about three years of this before it would work, I think.
Howard Owens, GateHouse Media former Web boss and one of my personal gurus, once write abotu this subject:
http://pundit.blogpeoria.com/2012/03/22/some-good-advice-for-online-only-news-start-ups/
P.S. — Originally, i was thinking of getting 20 to put $1,000 each into my pocket.
But then, I could also get 1,000 people to put $20 into my pocket. Hmmmm …. Interesting.