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Could it also be that the editors do not want writers to know their full worth? If any of their writers gets a large enough following (and knows it), they coul
by GigabyteCoin 13y ago
Could it also be that the editors do not want writers to know their full worth?
If any of their writers gets a large enough following (and knows it), they could easily go rogue and blog under their same name.
It's much tougher to say "No, I will not stay late again tonight. You n'know what? My last 10 stories had over 2 million readers a piece and I've had it with this company. I'm going off on my own." when you have no idea how popular or valuable your writing is.
- cushychicken 13y agoThe New York Times factors in expenses associated with reporting stories into its employees salaries, and requires them to pay for all expenses incurred to report on something themselves. The reasoning is that, without any chance of needing to accept external money, the journalists have no motivation besides their own interest to cover a story. This, to me, sounds like the digital equivalent of that - trying to minimize sources of bias or external influence of coverage. That being said - what you describe is certainly a convenient side effect of the policy.
- wmeredith 13y agoI've always wondered about this. It takes about 10 minutes and $5 to start a blog these days.
- cheald 13y agoA writer can approximate that already via social channels like Twitter and Facebook, though - if enough people are listening to you directly, that's the point at which your need for someone else's publishing platform diminishes.