The "it doesn't apply when journalists are on the job" line on story counts is a red herring. Journalists will be discouraged from going out on jobs, due to story count targets.
And there will still be pressure to do, say, five stories once back from the job (as opposed to a lower previous threshold). It massively ups the workload for everyone.
Not to mention that story targets tend to apply for whole outlets/newsdesks. In other words, if several colleagues "only" get five done a day, others will be pushed to do ten...
The "it doesn't apply when journalists are on the job" line on story counts is a red herring. Journalists will be discouraged from going out on jobs, due to story count targets.
And there will still be pressure to do, say, five stories once back from the job (as opposed to a lower previous threshold). It massively ups the workload for everyone.
Not to mention that story targets tend to apply for whole outlets/newsdesks. In other words, if several colleagues "only" get five done a day, others will be pushed to do ten...