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"Printing Errors" when journalism is precarious

of Paul Ribichini for "Right of critical

precarious. In companies, schools, public administration. And especially in newspapers. They call them freelance , but most "free", are forced to follow this path, now mandatory for anyone who wants to be a journalist. An unknown but large and real, ignored by the newspapers themselves, ready to report what happens on farms, but silent in the face of what is happening in newsrooms.

is how, two months ago, the coordination Printing Errors . "We are a group of colleagues raised on bread and chronicle of Rome, in the various editions of the city," said Matthew Valerio, a spokesman for the provisional group. Misprints is made up of writers who "have lived on their skin the corporate crises of its titles. And they paid with their skin involvement of the union only under contract, already largely guaranteed. For this Valerio and others want to "pick up the discontent of many colleagues who have lost all confidence in the assurance that their union should be unified." The accusation is clear: "the Fnsi marked in recent years, a complete detachment from those who are the real needs of a professional class, which now consists in large part by atypical figures.

The problem is primarily economic . Many actually pay for the services of the editorial staff a few tens of euro, or even less than 10 €. And they pay even after several months, using the fact that in almost all newspapers so. But "if there were no casual to bring the news and run the machine, the information system would stop suddenly," reads the poster Printing Errors . And how he's wrong when whole sections or sectors survive exclusively with staff or service editorial.

"Nobody among his colleagues, must no longer remain only in the battles for their rights," says Valerio. "We are aware of this necessity in the light of what is happening today in the newsroom. The crisis was are close, but the prospects are not the best: you predict extensions, more layoffs and a few, very few, or temporary stabilization of new hires. "

is therefore time to understand the precarious journalism are now a cornerstone of the information. However, representation is necessary but not sufficient. Need help from all sides: " put their dignity, human and professional, before anything else . Do not stand in line waiting for the case at hand do have a contract. Working, peg away, feeding on their passion. But to put the pegs, even the pillars of reinforced concrete, faced with any attempt to use "because" we do not work for free, never, " Valerio concludes.

Now the immediate objective of Printing Errors is to "network" : Facebook, Twitter and a blog . In terms of initiatives, the journalists who have joined the project have launched a drive in the newsroom census of all the Roman texts, a job that will allow to fully understand the phenomenon of temporary journalists. In addition there are study groups on the right hand, on unemployment benefit for non-standard, the trustee of the employees in the newsroom, and the regulation stage, which is currently almost never paid.