You ask, "why aren’t employees asked to fill out a form once a year disclosing other paid work and update it when necessary?"
As an employee at a state institution, I have to do this every year. (It's not really about humanities scholars, but more about the engineers and biotech researchers who have their own companies/are busy patenting their own work.) I would imagine that most employees of other state universities in the US go through a similar exercise. The NYT is a publicly traded but privately controlled company, very closely held and controlled by the Sulzbergers, no? For all of the huffing & puffing about Jeff Bezos's ownership of the WaPo, private ownership, media consolidation, and editorial judgment have been issues for decades now in the US. (Tribune Company, anyone?)
This is an important essay that made me think: what level of exposed conflict of interest would make me turn off the TV and stop reading the newspaper forever? If such a conflict every came out about Rachel Maddow, that's what. It seems to me that there is room on the internet for a website that dedicates itself 100% to listing the side-gigs of journalists and television commentators so we can make our decisions. Who knows, perhaps it already exists.
You ask, "why aren’t employees asked to fill out a form once a year disclosing other paid work and update it when necessary?"
As an employee at a state institution, I have to do this every year. (It's not really about humanities scholars, but more about the engineers and biotech researchers who have their own companies/are busy patenting their own work.) I would imagine that most employees of other state universities in the US go through a similar exercise. The NYT is a publicly traded but privately controlled company, very closely held and controlled by the Sulzbergers, no? For all of the huffing & puffing about Jeff Bezos's ownership of the WaPo, private ownership, media consolidation, and editorial judgment have been issues for decades now in the US. (Tribune Company, anyone?)
This is an important essay that made me think: what level of exposed conflict of interest would make me turn off the TV and stop reading the newspaper forever? If such a conflict every came out about Rachel Maddow, that's what. It seems to me that there is room on the internet for a website that dedicates itself 100% to listing the side-gigs of journalists and television commentators so we can make our decisions. Who knows, perhaps it already exists.