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freelance stories: 3 news briefs
WGA miffed by non-union writers
Los Angeles Times May 4, 09 2:05 PM CDT
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Late-night hosts don’t get all their gags in-house—scores of wannabe comedy writers bombard the likes of Jay and Dave with their one-liners, the Los Angeles Times reports, then anxiously wait for the show to air "to find out if you got a joke on or not,” says one. The problem? Freelancers earn $75 to $100 per joke, get no credit, and undermine jobs protected under the writers guild.
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New model uses
online submissions
to fill pages
Newsweek Mar 12, 08 9:23 PM CDT
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Circulation is down and Web content is taking over: what's a magazine to do? Milk the Internet for all it's worth and gather a plethora of content on the cheap, Newsweek reports. Publisher 8020 fills its travel and photography magazines with content submitted by readers via the web; its JPG buys all its content at $100 a pop from 20,000 monthly submissions.
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Search giant will hire everyone to collect data at $10 a pop
Infocommerce Aug 17, 07 3:56 PM CDT
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Google is hiring—and you don't even need to know html. The search giant wants locals to visit pizza joints, ice cream parlors, drugstores, and other businesses as part of a Herculean effort to build a commerce database. An army of freelancers will collect the data, snap a digital photo, and then send it to Google for $10 a pop, reports InfoCommerce.
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