I essayed a piece yesterday talking about the German nightly news guy (Jan Hofer) who got ill during the 15-minute nightly newscast.
Well, lot of hype and chatter yesterday in Germany over that odd situation. Then it came up over what they pay for the nightly-reader of the news.
It's not a yearly, monthly, or nightly pay-situation. The reader of the news comes in about 30 to 60 minutes prior to the 8 PM 'show', gets the script from the editors at ARD, and is there strictly to read the news to the public. Pay? It's roughly 260 Euro per 'show'.
So if Jan showed up at the 8 PM show, then read again at the 9:45 PM show, and then later at the 11:45 PM show? He'd clear 780 Euro for the day (roughly).
The fact that he's not there in the news booth for six hours and part of the editing team? Well, that's not the way that German news staffs work. The editors are the ones putting the whole thing together. It's a reflection of their views, not his.
A reader? Yes. You can't even refer to Jan, or any of the other reader-people on the newscast as a journalist....they simply serve to read the news because they have a clean accent and can readily pronounce tough words.
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