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Michael Lewis' Moneyhaul

Trackback — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:39:04 EDT

I’m not sure if this explains the Michael Lewis “Jock Exchange” piece or means it’s even more frustrating that there’s still so much A’s material in there…but there are rumors (via Gawker via Dealbreaker) that Lewis is making $12 a word(!)

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Michael Lewis' Moneyhaul

beccalou — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:59:39 EDT

@TedSez: $1 a word isn't the other end of the scale; at least on the West Coast, it can be a bounteous, beautiful thing and mightily piss off your friends (who are still getting thirty cents). I have never seen an old coworker angrier than the episode where Carrie Bradshaw got $4 a word from Vogue. And judging by that sadness yesterday about the Post and the Daily News paying experienced reporters $40k a year, New York sucks it too.

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BadUncle — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:27:22 EDT

@Otto-Reimer: You could pop those earnings up to $60 with a "Be that as it may."

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dotorg greg — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:16:32 EDT

And who can blame him? he only gets $6/word when he writes about contractions for Slate.

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the cajun boy — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:28:08 EDT

@KarenUhOh: genius.

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mark duffy — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:28:01 EDT

I once got a $25,000 bonus for a pitch we won. I wrote--tops--100 words across 10-12 comps.

Eat it real writers.

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TedSez — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:05:14 EDT

On the other end of the scale, editors have bumped up their $1-per-word writers to $1.25 -- but then they assign what should be 1,500-word pieces at 1,200, knowing full well that the writers will turn in 1,800 anyway.

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GorgeousGeorge — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:04:06 EDT

If Salman Rushdie ever wrote a piece for Portfolio, they'd probably blow their entire Fiscal Year '08 budget.

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Otto-Reimer — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:02:34 EDT

At this point - $36
In other words - $36

At this point, I am looking at the marvelously self-absorded use of the : ; schema, in other words, are the copy editors frantically in search for an edge too cut off a few more dollars? ($420 at 4:20)

Just when I doubt the crying towel was put away over Portfolio, find out someone is getting $12 bucks a word. The slack market has the morals of the hack market.

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backslider — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:59:54 EDT

The soul of professional sports is already lost: Athletes are self-interested; self-absorbed; always looking for advantage, however unfair; and leaping from team to team in search of more dollars. In other words, the jock market has the morals of the stock market.

Hey Portfolio editors! I could have saved you three hundred bucks on the first paragraph alone.

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KarenUhOh — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:56:04 EDT

He's probably not fond of contractions.

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GorgeousGeorge — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:54:28 EDT

Suddenly, the modern trend toward copious and semi-ironic footnoting seems like a smart business move.

GorgeousGeorge