Salary transparency as an extreme sport in CEE newsrooms

Benefits of Facebook's news ban in Canada, one of Substack’s most successful newsrooms is leaving the platform for Ghost and 17 active calls.

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This week on the Media Finance Monitor:

• Salary transparency as an extreme sport in CEE newsrooms

• The £100,000 decision: Mill Media's switch from Substack to Ghost

• Facebook's news ban may actually benefit some publishers

• 17 active calls (3 new)

Salary transparency as an extreme sport in CEE newsrooms

(by Peter)

I met Juanita Leon, the legendary Colombian journalist and founder of the news site La Silla Vacía, at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia in 2022. We had lunch together, and she told me how they introduced salary bands and transparency in her newsroom. I listened with a mix of fascination, admiration, and horror - much like the feeling I get when Instagram shows me a clip of someone doing extreme sports. It's impressive, I know I could never do it myself, and it also seems like there’s a real chance it could end in disaste…