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freelance stories: 3 news summaries

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WGA miffed by non-union writers

May 4, 09 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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,”... More »

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Saturday Night Live • union • Jay Leno • late night talk show • Jon Stewart • freelance • writer • David Letterman • Tonight Show • Writers Guild of America • jokes • Late Show

Web Content Breathes Life Into Magazines

New model uses
online submissions
to fill pages

Mar 12, 08 9:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Internet • online media • magazine • publishing • freelance • magazine industry • 8020 • JPG • Everywhere magazine

Google Wants You To Map Businesses

Search giant will hire everyone to collect data at $10 a pop

Aug 17, 07 3:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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,... More »

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Google • employment • workers • data • database • freelance

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