In the wake of deep cuts at Patch, Jim Romenesko follows up on AOL’s local news network. Apparently, to placate their parent company, “Patch editors will be working harder, not
smarter.” Indeed, “during a conference call last week, all Patch editors were told that each site should have 11 posts per day, per site,” a tipster tells Romenesko. “Since
most editors are now responsible for two or three sites, this would add up to either 16 or 24 stories per day, an obviously impossible edict to follow given the oft-slow news cycle of small
towns.”
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