Why Readers, Writers and Editors All Need to Know About Blendle
It would be putting it lightly to say that the last couple of decades have been a tumultuous time for journalism. Dutch news site Blendle wants to bring some order to the chaos. When the Internet all...
View ArticleWhy Virginia Quarterly Review Is Funding Instagram Journalism
This past December, Instagram announced that it had eclipsed 300 million active users, which means that if it were a nation, it would be the fourth most populous in the world. Yet for many, Instagram...
View ArticleWill Washington Post’s Talent Network Become the Uber of Freelancing?
For all the technological progress that has been made in the past couple decades, it often seems like freelancing for media companies is stuck in the ’90s. When I wrote a story for BuzzFeed, which,...
View ArticleNo Unions, No Problem: How Freelancers Are Fighting for Their Rights
“Brooklyn is like a goldmine. We can find so many people. Writers are actually very affordable in New York, which is very nice.” That’s Sean Beckner, CEO of media company Viral Nova, in a New York...
View ArticleGlenn Greenwald Talks Freelancing, Future of Investigative Journalism
It’s fair to say that the Edward Snowden leaks, which revealed top-secret and wide-ranging surveillance programs run by government agencies such as the NSA and the GCHQ, has been the biggest...
View ArticleSurvey: Freelancers Happy, Hopeful, but Undercompensated Considering...
This post originally appeared on Contently’s The Freelancer. There are a lot of studies out there about freelancing—but not many about freelance creatives. Here at The Freelancer, that’s who we are:...
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