Happy environment

This article is about the Pensacola News Journal which stands for PNJ and how they went from a really bad place by losing the most staffers out of all of the company’s four papers in the state, to becoming one of the best papers by getting recognized for its efforts, and winning 16 prizes.

The author Susannah Nesmith argument is how fast they went from being  in a really bad place and not having any one working for them to journalists saying how much they are enjoying their work and love being apart of the NPJ newspaper. While the newspaper was in a really bad a major flood hit its community and the local jail exploded, they got a community leadership award for its coverage of the jail explosion. The NPJ started tackling important issues, like child abuse, invasive species, and the struggles of an old mill town.

Nesmith thinks that it is a challenge for a newsroom to not make staff fell overworked and stressed out and that giving reports a little freedom to do the work that they are passionate about instead of forcing them to keep “filling holes”. For graphic designer/web designer/animator/videographer they all need a little freedom to be able to do what they would like to do or else they will feel stressed about something they aren’t even passionate about anymore if they are being overworked. The writer in unclear about her opinion on what she thinks about the NPJ newspaper and how they are becoming a better newspaper.

I thought that this article was very well put together and very positive.