Daily Must Reads, September 20, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.1. Journal Register likely to reduce print to three days a week at some papers (Poynter) 2. Six ventures bring data to the...
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Study: Freelancers See Career Improvement, Despite Added Stress
A new study released Monday by the content marketing platform Contently on the State of Freelancing in 2015 has found a conundrum in the freelancing industry. Many freelancers say their careers are...
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Should Writers Respond to Comments on Their Articles?
When I first started writing, everyone always warned me to stay far, far away from the comments. Perhaps I’m narcissistic — or a glutton for punishment — but I found it nearly impossible to stop myself...
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Will 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,...
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Thinking of Starting a Podcast? Read This First
Podcasts first popped up on my radar about 10 years ago, when the trend, fueled by RSS and file sharing technology, was just starting to boom. I loved the concept but couldn’t figure out how to create...
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No 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...
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Science Journalism Has a Big Problem. How Can We Fix It?
In June, I was putting the finishing touches on a longform story about protecting ecosystems from climate change. After weeks of reportage and three rounds of edits, the publisher was set to...
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Can WordRates, PitchLab Flip the Script for Freelancers vs. Publishers?
Award-winning investigative journalist, author and anthropologist Scott Carney thinks that writers are getting paid too little. Way too little. His solution? To make publications compete against one...
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How Contently’s Content Marketing Funds Investigative Journalism
Click on the image for a look at the full series. Original photo by Jeff Djevdet and used here with Creative Commons license. Anyone paying close attention to the sub-headline of the Guardian’s recent...
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The 9 Most Important Takeaways From Freelancers Union’s Annual Survey
Whether you moonlight or work as an independent contractor, freelancing isn’t easy. But if you’re like the thousands of freelancers who responded to the “Freelancing in America” survey, you enjoy the...
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Native Ads, Even With Labels, Confuse Readers
This post first appeared on the Knight Digital Media Center’s site. Like most news publications, the 14 organizations that participated in a recent CUNY study of native advertising label the content to...
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Native Advertising Has Flaws, But They’re Fixable
The following piece is a guest post from Contently editor-in-chief Joe Lazauskas. Guest posts do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this publication. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here....
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