http://www.crikey.com.au now with extra source Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:25:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/freelancer_to_file_class_action_suit_against_huffpost_and_aol_over_compensation/2011/04/12/AFa9QGQD_story.html?wprss=rss_wellness http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/freelancer_to_file_class_action_suit_against_huffpost_and_aol_over_compensation/2011/04/12/AFa9QGQD_story.html?wprss=rss_wellness#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:47:48 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=217442 Huffington 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.]]> http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/freelancer_to_file_class_action_suit_against_huffpost_and_aol_over_compensation/2011/04/12/AFa9QGQD_story.html?wprss=rss_wellness/feed/ 0 http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/09/pacific-solution-freelancers-in-uproar-over-new-copyright-edict/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/09/pacific-solution-freelancers-in-uproar-over-new-copyright-edict/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:20:36 +0000 Margaret Simons http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=151820 http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/09/pacific-solution-freelancers-in-uproar-over-new-copyright-edict/feed/ 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/06/how-men-and-women-pitch-stories-a-disturbing-sampling http://www.theawl.com/2010/06/how-men-and-women-pitch-stories-a-disturbing-sampling#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:45:20 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=150249 The Awl comparing how different men and women freelancers pitch stories to them. Men are direct, women are apologetic.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/06/how-men-and-women-pitch-stories-a-disturbing-sampling/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2010/02/23/freelancers-should-not-work-for-free-the-union-acts/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2010/02/23/freelancers-should-not-work-for-free-the-union-acts/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:19:53 +0000 Margaret Simons http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=118873 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.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2010/02/23/freelancers-should-not-work-for-free-the-union-acts/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2010/02/22/whats-unfair-in-freelancing-a-publisher-speaks/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2010/02/22/whats-unfair-in-freelancing-a-publisher-speaks/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:38:45 +0000 Margaret Simons http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=118278 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.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2010/02/22/whats-unfair-in-freelancing-a-publisher-speaks/feed/ 0 http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-onthemedia6-2010jan06,0,3250617,full.column http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-onthemedia6-2010jan06,0,3250617,full.column#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:09:27 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=108673 James Rainey.]]> http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-onthemedia6-2010jan06,0,3250617,full.column/feed/ 0 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/01/fairfax-freelance-deal-an-unenforceable-joke/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/01/fairfax-freelance-deal-an-unenforceable-joke/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000 Crikey Jonathan Green? ]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/01/fairfax-freelance-deal-an-unenforceable-joke/feed/ 3