Texas Tribune Editor-in-Chief: "Journalists deserve a living wage"

Here’s a sentiment many out there will agree with. The Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith spoke to our parent site mediabistro about the rise of salaries based on page views, and he’s not a fan.

“One of the benefits of raising enough money to do a real operation was we could pay honest to goodness real journalists a real wage,” said Smith. “Journalists deserve a living wage, not to be nickel and dimed on the basis of traffic.”

Hear;

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