Unlike a Rolling Stone

[typefitter]

For how many words?

Not sure, but it was a full feature, so I'm guessing at least 2,500.

A magazine like Rolling Stone should be paying at least $2 a word to an experienced freelancer.

 

[GBNF]

Not sure, but it was a full feature, so I'm guessing at least 2,500.

A magazine like Rolling Stone should be paying at least $2 a word to an experienced freelancer.

I wrote a 3000+ story for Playboy and got $500, and I'm an experienced freelancer. Are you sure that story is not online-only, which seems to be at a far lesser rate?

 

[JCT89]

Was talking to someone yesterday who recently got $600 to write a feature for them. Even the kid from Almost Famous would have turned that down.

Not sure, but it was a full feature, so I'm guessing at least 2,500.

A magazine like Rolling Stone should be paying at least $2 a word to an experienced freelancer.

I would be interested to know whether it was for the magazine or the website. There are a few places -- not sure Rolling Stone is one anymore -- where I'd consider taking a little less just to be able to cross it off my list and say I had a byline there.

 

[cjericho]

I would be interested to know whether it was for the magazine or the website. There are a few places -- not sure Rolling Stone is one anymore -- where I'd consider taking a little less just to be able to cross it off my list and say I had a byline there.

They don't get to put it in print and on the website?

 

[typefitter]

I wrote a 3000+ story for Playboy and got $500, and I'm an experienced freelancer. Are you sure that story is not online-only, which seems to be at a far lesser rate?

Online does pay a lot less almost everywhere, but he was talking about the fact checking process, which made me think it was for the print version.

 

[CD Boogie]

Music reviews are right up there with whiskey reviews in the pantheon of bullshirt writing. And when 90 percent of your feature subjects get final approval rights, you're just doing PR.

 

[Alma]

Music reviews are right up there with whiskey reviews in the pantheon of bullshirt writing. And when 90 percent of your feature subjects get final approval rights, you're just doing PR.

Correct. There's some artists who could burp for 10 tracks and still get a favorable review.

 

[YankeeFan]

I wrote a 3000+ story for Playboy and got $500, and I'm an experienced freelancer. Are you sure that story is not online-only, which seems to be at a far lesser rate?

How long -- including any research required -- did that take you?

 

[Ice9]

Correct. There's some artists who could burp for 10 tracks and still get a favorable review.

Cough cough Radiohead cough cough

 

[Azrael]

I wrote a 3000+ story for Playboy and got $500, and I'm an experienced freelancer.

This breaks my mighty heart.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[Huggy]

Hauled the new-look RS out of the mailbox yesterday. Huge, oversized thing, kind of reminded me of its newsprint size in the 70s and 80s. Now a monthly (I wondered why my subscription, which I have had since 1978, had been extended to 2020) and while I haven't had a chance to dive into it yet it looks like they have expanded the reviews section which had all but been forgotten about in the last year or so.