HuffPo freelancers refute the ‘free’ partHuffington Post cost AOL $315 million earlier this year, yet the majority of its writers don’t earn a cent for their work. Now a group of freelancers have launched a class-action seeking compensation for their work.
Freelancers
Pacific solution — freelancers in uproar over new copyright edict
Freelancers providing copy to Pacific Publications are up in arms over a new standard contract that requires them to assign all copyright to the company.
The difference between men and women freelancers
The ‘women undersell themselves, men oversell themselves’ issue continues, with The Awl comparing how different men and women freelancers pitch stories to them. Men are direct, women are apologetic.
Freelancers shouldn’t work for free
Following on from Content Makers own fight for freelancers, the Media Alliance has announced its own project to collect online information on how freelancers are paid and how they are treated.
A publisher speaks: Freelancers are unfair too
Publisher Jim Clarke weighs in on the Content Makers freelancing rates debate, saying that yes freelancing rates often exploit the vulnerable, but not all freelancers are fair to their editors.
Putting the free into freelancing
The idea that writers should earn a living wage doing their craft is quickly evaporating, which fees spirally downwards quicker than you can say “no pay, but great exposure!” What does this mean for journalism? asks James Rainey.
Fairfax freelance deal an “unenforceable” joke
How is a Fairfax freelancer expected to make a living, wonders Crikey editor Jonathan Green?
