Albuquerque Journal Reviews

The majority of the editors at the Journal have never worked as reporters and do not know how to edit reporters who have more reporting experience than they do. This is an extremely hostile atmosphere to minorities. White staffers calling a black reporter a cotton picker, and a white male making a racist and sexist joke in a staff meeting about a black woman in her presence was not taken particularly seriously, with the HR office telling the complaining that the racist comment was "just a joke." The hourly pay for a woman with 5 years reporting experience and a MA in Journalism, a published book, years of teaching journalism at the college level, was seventeen dollars per hour, the same a student who had a full time job there and was about to graduate from college.

The Journal is trying hard to shake the stigma of "Print is Dead" by offering online options to clients. This is a good step but the internal workings are extremely cumbersome. They rely on a lot of paperwork and spreadsheets which slows down productivity. It's an old system that has been in place too long and needs to be streamlined.