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more about #freelancers more comments → Wrapitup: Nobody fucks with the HamNo. more » Penscribe: Why are we addressing Boulton's addictions and/or marital woes? more » cpjones: I can practically hear the violin playing as Neal is typing this crap. more » belltolls: I don't think you get paid until the Ninth Step. At least that's when I got re-paid once. more » Mrs. Beeton: That's not how you spell Neil! more » Perhaps Not: Er... why did you commission the story without a freelance budget, Neal? And Hamilton, I envy you for only ever having been ripped off by one editor. more » The Real JR: Don't short the paper boy. Nuff said. (Dudes, there are like 4 clips of this epic. I didn't know which was funnier.) more » DennyCrane: You are meaningless and useless, Neal, but when Hamilton writes about you, you certainly aren't boring. But, hey, two out of three ain't bad. more » BettyCrocker: I don't think it's a good idea to make fun of an addict's addiction, unless said addict is also a deadbeat man-whore who likes cute blond boys. Then ... more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Man, how can you ever think that it's a good idea to ask a gossip site to "Please stop being mean to me"? more » scroll_lock: Hopefully Hams will take this as a greenlight to gleefully double his coverage of this skeeve. If he wanted to do the right thing he'd have gone ahead... more » Swifter: "Never pick a fight with someone who buys bandwidth by the terabyte." more » MissNormaDesmond: Once again, the truism prevails: it's terribly expensive to be poor. more » Elizabeth Weinbloom: Yep. I'm getting paychecks right now for an NBCU gig I finished in August. Actually, it's kind of awesome. Free money! Sucked in August, though. more » Swifter: But it's a little bit different when you're talking about people's salaries. But, we're not talking about people's salaries. These folks are freelan... more » -
#letterstotheeditor
Neal Boulton: 'I Am Boring, and Meaningless, and Frankly Useless'
Hamilton Nolan has taken frequent aim at 'pansexual' self-promoter and editor Neal Boulton's public antics, usually with a disclosure that Genre magazine never paid him $250 for a story Boulton assigned. Today, they bury that hatchet. A letter from Boulton: More » -
#ripoffs
NBC Universal's Version of the Payday Loan Scam for Freelancers
Yesterday we told you about Time Inc.'s freelancer scam—the company will pay you quickly, but it'll cost you up to 4%. Today, another tipster has clued us in to NBC Universal's version, which is even worse. More » -
#ripoffs
Time Inc. Will Pay You Promptly, If You Pay Them for the Service
Time Inc. has opened up a fantastic new market: charging its freelancers for the privilege of being paid for their work in a timely fashion. More » -
#thepoors
Mediabistro Employee Learns to Live in Poverty
Amanda Ernst, the new editor of Mediabistro's Fishbowl NY, was on the Today Show this morning! Topic: How to deal with her crushing poverty as she tries to survive on a paltry Mediabistro wage.
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#freelancers
State Dept. Has Known (and Done Nothing) about its Afghan Animal House
The world's shocked and appalled by news and photos that private security forces guarding the American embassy in Kabul, act like pre-teen cave men. Here's something that won't improve the situation: the government's known all along! More » -
#freelancers
CIA Outsourced 'Death Squad' Work to Blackwater
As part of Dick Cheney's secret program to conduct political assassinations, the CIA hired Blackwater, the shady group of Christian vigilantes for hire whose founder was recently implicated in a murder, to assist in the operation. [New York Times] -
#reportersinperil
Hillary Clinton Asks North Korea to Forgive Reporters for Non-Crime
Hillary Clinton has carefully, publicly sought "amnesty" for Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who have been sentenced to 12-years in a North Korean labor camp. Insane, yes, except it's the best shot at getting the Current journalists back home. More » -
#alumnireport
Put Some Damn Pants On Already!
We haven't done one of these alumni reports in a while, so why not? Today we have Defamer's former founding editor scoring a new gig and a former Gawker editor imploring her freelancing colleagues to put some pants on. More » -
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#imperialistagents
North Korea Shock: US Reporters Admit to Slanders, Calumnies
The free world has been protesting North Korea's 12-year prison sentence of Current journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee as unjust and outrageous. How embarrassing! Now the women have admitted their vile crimes. According to North Korea's official news agency. More » -
#contentisking
Media Jobs '09: Craigslist Serfdom
The media job market is tough. But there are always freelancing opportunities on Craigslist! Right? Right! Terrible, degrading freelance opportunities. Follow these onerous submission guidelines and you too could one day earn literally dozens of dollars, by writing! More » -
#media
Viacom Has 22 Reasons Not to Pay You
In March we told you about "Invoiceworks," Viacom's Kafkaesque new system for paying (or not!) its freelancers. How bad is it? We present to you, "22 Invoice Rejections at Once": More » -
#rumormonger
Surface Magazine: Dead or Dying?
Surface magazine popped up on our inaugural chart of print media's worst late payment offenders. Is that because the magazine is dead? [UPDATED below] More » -
#strugglingwriters
Stiffing Your Freelancer: The Direct Approach
A good reason not to write for BlackBook: "Your final check will be sent out next week" is followed two months later by "there will be no further payment for your services." More » -
#rumormonger
MTV's Freelance Slave Trade
Last year, MTV really screwed over its freelancers, delaying their paychecks and even hoarding charity stipends. This year, we hear, it's firing some so as not to pay benefits, and making them train replacements. More » -
#media
Print's Worst Late Payment Offenders, Round Two
We asked. You answered. Now it's time for the second installment of the fun thing where we reveal the Media's Worst Late Payment Offenders! Plus: a success story! More » -
#mediacrack
More Layoffs at Conde Nast Today
In your troubling Wednesday media column: layoffs at Conde Nast and the Boston Globe, Bill Keller fights back, King's officially dead, North Korea's still mean to journalists, and more: More » -
#magazines
Screwed Plenty Writers Cry Out For Justice
Do-gooder earth magazine Plenty had a nasty reputation for not paying its writers. The magazine folded in January, but its website was bought by a semi-celebrity. The writers still want their money, okay? More » -
#requestforinformation
Payment Time Info: Don't Stop Y'all
Oppressed media freelancers: we stand in solidarity with you. Please continue to send us info on how long publications are taking to pay you. We're also looking for payment success stories! Round two, coming soon. -
#media
Print's Ten Worst Late Payment Offenders
Last week we asked you, the media freelancers, to tell us how long you're waiting to get paid. Scads responded! Deadbeat villains, prepare to be outed. More » -
#requestforinformation
How Long Are You Waiting to Get Paid?
The worse the economy gets, the more we hear about media companies that aren't paying their bills on time. Are you getting screwed? Help us help you! Like so: More »
