As first reported on this channel a while back, the Washington Post is looking to undercut its existing reporting staff by creating a kinda junior reporter position.
The salary for these positions is in the range of $34,000, well below the starting minimum salary of a Post reporter and less than half of the newsroom average [...]

To anyone who believes that upper management at the Washington Post isn't moving quickly to reduce the cost of getting out the news, take a look at the paper's latest maneuver. It's called a "Community Journalist" position.
In a Jan. 29 letter to the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the paper's newsroom union, the Post proposes that [...]