Looking for a writer for baseball website

[ChrisMaza]

$30 per story is almost slave labor. Especially since it's not a newspaper company.

If the story takes an hour to write, how is $30/hour slave labor?

Even if it takes 2 hours to write, a lot of writers out here don't make $15/hr in their full-time gigs.

Now if you have to go cover a 3-hour event and then write about it, yes it's getting ridiculous.

That's a great wage if you're considering writing as just any menial job. However, writing is truly a skilled labor position that requires talent and intellect and as such, the pay should be commensurate.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

$30 per story is almost slave labor. Especially since it's not a newspaper company.

If the story takes an hour to write, how is $30/hour slave labor?

Even if it takes 2 hours to write, a lot of writers out here don't make $15/hr in their full-time gigs.

Now if you have to go cover a 3-hour event and then write about it, yes it's getting ridiculous.

That's a great wage if you're considering writing as just any menial job. However, writing is truly a skilled labor position that requires talent and intellect and as such, the pay should be commensurate.

Have you read Mike Lupica's columns?

 

[Blitz]

This thread has generated some funny, funny shirt.
Good reading, for sure.

 

[BillyT]

$30 per story is almost slave labor. Especially since it's not a newspaper company.

I know a lot of papers that pay their stringer $30 or $35 for football games.

 

[Shaggy]

$30 per story is almost slave labor. Especially since it's not a newspaper company.

If the story takes an hour to write, how is $30/hour slave labor?

Even if it takes 2 hours to write, a lot of writers out here don't make $15/hr in their full-time gigs.

Now if you have to go cover a 3-hour event and then write about it, yes it's getting ridiculous.

That's a great wage if you're considering writing as just any menial job. However, writing is truly a skilled labor position that requires talent and intellect and as such, the pay should be commensurate.

"Everybody learns to write in 1st grade. Most of us move on to better things."

It's over the top, but somewhat true. We're not doing brain surgery here.

 

[playthrough]

$30 per story is almost slave labor. Especially since it's not a newspaper company.

I know a lot of papers that pay their stringer $30 or $35 for football games.

I've known a ton of those guys, they're thrilled to be out on a Friday night to cover the home team. There's one guy who IM's me all the time at my new job (in a different state and a million miles away from high school sports), who wants to tell me everything about what happened last week with the coach and the junior QB, etc. I don't have the heart to tell him "bro, I don't give a hoot anymore."

Those are guys who just love the games, and the $35 is a bonus.

 

[mustangj17]

Working for $30 to cover a story (probably from home) is fair. I take a lot of $30-$50 stories because I know I can knock them out in an hour from the comfort of my couch. It's more than I make at my day job.

 

[Brucewells62]

Anyone know whats up with these guys? I sent an email and haven't heard as much as a polite reply back.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Anyone know whats up with these guys? I sent an email and haven't heard as much as a polite reply back.

Obviously unprofessional clowns. Who gives a fork.