1. Write a summary of the article, identifying the three key points.
A small-chained paper in Florida is showing others that it is possible to do better work than before and keep their employees happy while working there. Recently Pensacola News Journal (PNJ) was struggling due to the 2013 layoffs in Gannett. As the year went on the PNJ figured out a new idea to make things better than they were before. Troy Moon, a veteran with the PNJ who has worked there for 30 years, says "There's a lot more freedom to do your own thing. We're having fun. The editors aren't telling us, do this, do that. [Nellessen-Lara] is trusting us to use our instincts."
2. Discuss the authors argument.
The author is explaining that this new way of keeping PNJ's employees happy is working better than how it was before. This news journal is getting a lot of attention from the public over their new ways of doing things. Kevin Robinson says before "You always felt this pressure of, 'If I'm not putting two stories in the paper every day, I'm not doing my part.' " Today he is able to take a day to find something interesting to write about, it makes things flow a lot easier for him.
The author does a great job at putting a good amount of evidence in her article to support her thoughts, what she could do better is explain more about what it was like for the employees before the things changed and get more people's perspectives from it.
3. My critique.
The author does a good job at explaining and giving evidence towards what it is like after the change but could do a better job at giving more evidence of what it was like before. The evidence used is very well placed in the article. What I think could have been done better was putting more information at the beginning about what it was like before the change occurred, it would have us compare each stage and have us question things, make us wonder more.
The article: http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/pensacola_news_journal.php
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