What Are Words Worth To Magazines? (or, Crowdsourcing Freelance Rates)
Freelance writer Scott Carney created a few ripples in the freelance universe when he and a friend guesstimated the total pool of money available to freelance journalists. (Basically, there’s enough to...
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Today’s Useful Free Thing: The Quick and Dirty Guide To Freelance Writing
Scott Carney’s a working journalist who is asking some tough questions about the rates paid to freelance journalists (The case for $20 per word, Are you Pitching to a Silo or to a Market?, and What...
View ArticleCan Scott Carney’s Kickstarter Change The Face of Freelance Journalism?
I knew the freelance world was changing back in the late 1990s, when a giant Silicon Valley network products company implemented an online bidding system for their vendors. They would post projects on...
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WordRates/PitchLab Site Aims to Fix Freelance Writing’s Broken Business Model
I don’t know if Scott Carney’s WordRates/PitchLab site wil increase the rates freelance journalists earn for their work. But I can hope. Carney, if you don’t know, is the investigative journalist who...
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