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Oklahoman shakeup

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Della9250, Aug 19, 2023.

  1. Dog8Cats

    Dog8Cats Well-Known Member

    That ad deck sold me on one thing: Even ad decks need better-trained eyes than that one was given. Inconsistency in style and presentation, awkward line breaks and so on. Shaking my head ... shit ain't that hard to make appear that someone cares how it comes across.
     
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  2. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

  3. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    $120 a year! I hope it works out for her but that sounds like a steep price. Or maybe I'm just the classic sportswriter undervaluing my own work. Could be both.
     
  4. SixToe

    SixToe Well-Known Member

    That's $2.30 a week. That's peanuts. I subscribe to a couple with similar rates, one for food and one for sports.

    Her talents and experience are worth more, obviously, but clearly she's angling for the volume at the low price.
     
  5. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    Excellent point on the weekly rate. Bad interpretation of the price by me. I hope she succeeds.
     
  6. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Anybody know how much the author actually makes? Of the $120/year, does Carlson keep $40? $30?
     
  7. BurnsWhenIPee

    BurnsWhenIPee Well-Known Member

    Not to be a contrarian, but not sure I'd find even $2.30 or whatever a week to be worth it for 1 writer's work.

    The list price for The Athletic is, what $7.99 a month, so that's under $2 a week for a crapton of writers in a crapton of markets. There are times I wonder how worth it that is.
     
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  8. SixToe

    SixToe Well-Known Member

  9. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

  10. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    I tinkered around with a Substack a while back for a very niche thing and realized pretty quickly that it wasn't even going to be worth it as a supplementary income type of thing.
     
  11. BurnsWhenIPee

    BurnsWhenIPee Well-Known Member

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  12. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

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