Journalism Riches Over at at Journalism Jobs a company is looking for US-based journalists to write cover and feature stories that will be placed in the “weekly, hyperlocal sections of a major metropolitan newspaper.” For your efforts: $24 for a “cover story”, $10-$12 for “news and features”. Via Journalism Jobs: The job pays $24 per piece. Stories are two-source interviews on topics selected well in advance by our editorial team. Story lengths average 650 to 700 words, and each assignment requires the writer to include three hi-res photos from sources. An assignment editor will provide you with a story template and data to help write each piece. You contact sources, conduct interviews, mix in the data and write to spec. If you’re doing the math on those cover stories, that’s three cents per word. We feel dirty too.

Journalism Riches

Over at at Journalism Jobs a company is looking for US-based journalists to write cover and feature stories that will be placed in the “weekly, hyperlocal sections of a major metropolitan newspaper.”

For your efforts: $24 for a “cover story”, $10-$12 for “news and features”.

Via Journalism Jobs:

The job pays $24 per piece. Stories are two-source interviews on topics selected well in advance by our editorial team. Story lengths average 650 to 700 words, and each assignment requires the writer to include three hi-res photos from sources. An assignment editor will provide you with a story template and data to help write each piece. You contact sources, conduct interviews, mix in the data and write to spec.

If you’re doing the math on those cover stories, that’s three cents per word.

We feel dirty too.

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  1. jorgevalens reblogged this from futurejournalismproject
  2. artofmixedmessages reblogged this from everyfiredies and added:
    This makes me sad.
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  4. tiffs1dobsessed reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    futures bleak for this journalism student….
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  10. melanielisa reblogged this from poynterinstitute and added:
    Sad.
  11. everyfiredies reblogged this from futurejournalismproject and added:
    Keeping this around for when I lament the fact that I work for one of the lowest-paying districts in the area. Before I...
  12. lemonturtles reblogged this from futurejournalismproject and added:
    Eh..I get paid about the same amount per story I write for this local magazine of mine. Given, that I am a student...
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  15. timakimoff reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    I once thought freelancing offered a good return on hard work. I no longer believe that. shortformblog:
  16. shortformblog reblogged this from poynterinstitute and added:
    For comparison’s sake, you can make $20-$30 per visit donating plasma, and you can do that twice a week.
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  20. onebytwobythreebyme reblogged this from futurejournalismproject and added:
    Um. What the fuck.
  21. nslayton reblogged this from futurejournalismproject and added:
    Well, I’ll have to write a lot to break even….
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  23. nprhuddle reblogged this from futurejournalismproject and added:
    Sigh. — Tanya B.
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