Infographic: What’s the Going Rate for Freelance Writers?
The transition from print to digital has affected everyone in the media world, and what’s often forgotten is the impact on freelance writers.
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Content Catchup: How Top Brands Build Their Newsrooms, Red Bull’s Secret Team, and More Must-Reads
Here's what you missed while wondering when your VC-engorged tech company is going to build a cave room that you can hibernate in until April...
Build vs. Buy: Why Top Brands Are Leaning on Freelancers to Build Hybrid Newsrooms
GE sometimes uses freelancers for its award-winning publication, as do Coca-Cola and General Assembly. Why is the hybrid newsroom approach now taking off among big brands?
Why Underpaying Writers Can Kill Your Content Marketing
As brands rush to publish blog posts, videos, white papers, news articles, feature stories, and other types of content to build relationships with consumers, they’re often outsourcing the actual creation of content. What they are finding is that they can choose to pay either a lot or a little for content, but going the latter…
What Top Brand Publishers Look For in Freelancers
Last Wednesday, the brightest minds in brand publishing gathered together at the Bowery Hotel in SoHo for the Contently Summit. Throughout the day, we asked some of the brands, publishers, and agencies what qualities they’re looking for when hiring freelance writers and designers. Here’s what they had to say...
5 Lessons For Casting a Great Source
Casting a great source into your story is one of the ultimate tricks of the journalism trade.