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“What do they pay?”
This is the most important question for freelancers. We don’t do journalism because it’s a capital-c Calling or because we’re ~meant to write~. We do this to get paid. So let’s get fucking paid!
Last year I asked editors to be transparent about their rates, and a ton of them stepped up and dished abou…
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