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No wonder mass media is of such poor quality if original, reported articles consumed by up to 13M readers pays $100. Guess that's supply and demand (?)
by flexie 14y ago
No wonder mass media is of such poor quality if original, reported articles consumed by up to 13M readers pays $100. Guess that's supply and demand (?)
- eliben 14y agoAccording to the post, it also pays $125K / year for a full-time job with the requirement to deliver 6 articles. Doesn't sound very bad.
- nutate 14y agoThat doesn't add up, does it?
- mayukh 14y agoThat was atleast 9 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kelly_(editor) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kelly_(editor)
- nutate 14y agoExactly. Ad revenue of newspapers slipped over 50% during that time. The whole market got eaten up and destroyed, worse than the music industry could've ever dreamed. There is still a great bunch of journalism out there, like Vice (who actually did the original reporting) and then there are folks like this guy who wishes for days of yore. The Atlantic puts out plenty of great content from great writers who get little cash for their efforts. The market changed drastically on this guy and he hopes he can get more PR from this free blog post than a free byline on theatlantic.com Good luck to him.
- Terretta 14y ago> $100 That's the reblog rate.
- nelsonweiss 14y ago"I completely understand your position, but our rate even for original, reported stories is $100." (from original story) A confusing sentence if ever I've seen one, but are they saying they're offering $100 for reblog or for something else?