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The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"If a $1/word rate matched today’s inflation, the average writer should be making about $2/word. But — according to our data — they aren’t." @fspnwu.bsky.social members jen byers and Elena Novak analyze data from the project's Rate Sharing Database. buff.ly/g7wyXFU

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Freelance journalism rates have barely changed since 2000

New data from the National Writers Union offers a glimpse into a bleak picture of decades-long wage stagnation in freelance journalism.

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National Writers Union @nwu.org · 01/12/2025

NWU recently implemented a simple, plain-language policy governing AI use for union business. We think it can serve as an example for organizations that want to protect members’ privacy and ensure creative work is done by creative workers. #NewsNotSlop nwu.org/ai-policy

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NWU Adopts AI Policy for Union Business | NWU

In accordance with our Principles and Policy Platform, NWU maintains the following policies governing generative AI in union activity: Every meeting should have a designated human note-taker.…

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 05/08/2025

Find our contributor guidelines and full announcement linked below. Freelancers should also check out NWU’s digital media division @fspnwu.bsky.social to build power with fellow workers, share rates, and more!

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We've Gone UNION, Baby!

The Flytrap is partnering with the National Writers Union on freelancer policies

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 05/08/2025

As worker-owned independent media, we believe in the transformative power of independent media. It’s not possible without our fellow workers. We’re excited to partner with @nwu.org alongside publications such as @defector.com, @hellgatenyc.com, and @inthesetimes.com.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 05/08/2025

As current and former freelancers, we believe these valued contributors deserve fair pay and respectful treatment from The Flytrap. Our UA sets base rates and transparent expectations for collaborating.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 05/08/2025

📢 The Flytrap is thrilled to announce our new agreement with @nwu.org! 📢 🧵 with more details about our commitment to fair pay and just working conditions for freelance contributors.

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The Flytrap

The Flytrap has collaborated with the National Writers Union on freelancer policies.

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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

“The Writers Guild of America East and the Writers Guild of America West asked the New York state attorney general, Letitia James, to investigate Paramount over ‘potential wrongdoing’ after the company announced the cancellation of the Late Show on Thursday.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Writers’ union urges investigation into Paramount move to cancel Colbert show

Writers Guild of America requests New York attorney general investigate ‘potential wrongdoing’ after shock cancellation

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 18/07/2025

"This content was produced in collaboration with Valnet Inc. and the sponsor, Gunzilla Games" is a sentence straight from hell (gunzilla owns game informer, btw)

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mirlo @mirlo.space · 20/07/2025

Yesterday we mentioned being fairer than Bandcamp in terms of the fees on #Mirlo. This graphic explains our fee structure and recognises that artists may have different needs. 🪙🐦‍⬛ #Solidarity #Music #Musicians

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 20/07/2025

The Mississippi Free Press is looking for new Voices writers. Submit opinion columns to the MFP at voices@mississippifreepress.org.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

If you know student or early-career journalists in the region, we're looking for pitches on politics, work, education, cultural trends and the arts, life + identity, and more! Rates start at $100 for opinion, $200-$400 for reporting & could increase based on scope. Pitch guide and form below:

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 16/06/2025

Okay so excited to finally share that I'm part of this really cool team of people trying to spin up a new worker owned publication in the Bay Area! We're fundraising now and it would be so rad if you supported us! Awoooo!!

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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Damn good places too #WritingCommunity

12 lit mags that pay writers & don't charge fees opened for submissions recently
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* North Carolina Literary Review
# Mud Season Review
* Poet Lore
* Cutleaf
* flo.
* Ink In Thirds
Chaotic Merge
* TABLEWARE
* IHRAM Publishes
* The Paris Review
* Trembling With Fear

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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

All approaching deadline so you'd better be quick 🖤 Everything you need to submit here: chillsubs.com/lists/4_28_25

21 Places to Send Your Writing This Week That Pay and Don't Charge Fees
• Slant'd | $100 - $200
• Adi Magazine | $200 - $500
• EDGE CITY | $25
• Stained Silk Magazine / $30
• Flash Fiction Online | $40
• Strange Horizons | $45
• Terrain.org | $50
• Mud Season Review | $50
• From the Desk of Amy Suto | $500
• Electric Literature | $75
• The Wild Umbrella | €25
• In The Mood Magazine | CA$30
• North Carolina Literary Review | $25 - $250
• Haven Speculative | $20
• Eggplant Emoji Lit | $25
• The Offing | $25 - $100
• Foglifter | $50
• The Paris Review
• Food & Feeling Zine | CA$5 - CA$20
• Brick | CAS65 - CA$720
• Mythaxis Magazine | £O.01 per word

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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

CALLING ALL POETS! Adi is open for poetry submissions with a focus on alternative political visions from 5/9 - 5/31! Send 3-5 poems to us via Submittable. We're thrilled to offer free submissions and $150 for accepted pieces. Can't wait to read your poems! ☀️ adimagazine.submittable.com/submit

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Come cover politics and reproductive rights (and occasionally write snarky blogs) for us! www.jezebel.com/come-work-at...

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Jezebel Is Hiring a Staff Writer

We're hiring a staff writer to cover politics and reproductive rights.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Send pitches! Guide + pitch form here, but rates for the youth vertical begin around $50-$100 for opinion, $200-$400 for reporting, increase based on scope of work. We've worked with student journalists and freelancers as well as individuals publishing for the first time.

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A New Call for Pitches for a New Appalachian Era

We continue to tell the stories of our region, with an eye toward deeply-reported modern-day stories of Appalachia’s challenges and triumphs. And if you’re a writer or journalist in the region, we wan...

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"We’re looking for stories where young people are at the center – how a policy impacts them, how an issue is changing how they live and work, or the experiences they’re having in Appalachia."

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Alexis Gunderson @alexiskg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

PAY FOR WRITING YOU LOVE & VALUE. And, then, also: There is a union for precarious freelance media workers who want organize creative worker power for effective collective action! Hard but necessary work led by members of @fspnwu.bsky.social (the digital media division of @thenwu.bsky.social)

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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

are you an early career journalist in the South who is working to inform your community about safety - what actually threatens it, how it can be protected, and what truly keeps people safe? if so, please apply for this cohort! a little more info in this thread: justjournalism.org/page/better-...

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Building a Better Beat: Fall 2025 Cohort

Fall 2025 Cohort

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Vox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Our GoFundMe to assist our former colleagues at @polygon.com is now live! Please support them if you can, and share widely even if you can't! Thank you all for the kindness and care you've shared with Polygon and the union over the last 2 days — it means the world to us all. gofund.me/a21cbbdc

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Donate to Support Polygon Workers and the Vox Media Union, organized by Ashok Selvam

On Thursday, May 1, Vox Media announced the sale of beloved video game s… Ashok Selvam needs your support for Support Polygon Workers and the Vox Media Union

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Freelance Solidarity Project @fspnwu.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

To our knowledge, Polygon’s editorial staff have consistently followed the key tenets of our Principles for Working with Freelancers: transparent & fair rates, clear contracts, & paying freelancers in a timely manner. We deserve more pubs like this, not fewer. freelancesolidarity.org/principles

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Principles for Working With Freelancers - Freelance Solidarity Project

Illustration by FSP member Maxim Lowe

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Who Pays Writers? @whopayswriters.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Today in “Who Will No Longer Pay Writers?”:

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 16/04/2025

One small kind of inside baseball thing that I want to also say about Tested is that I own it. CBC licensed it from me, and NPR licensed it from them. The show is mine (as, I think, it should be). And I can only say that because my lawyer Quinn Heraty is amazing and helped me make that happen!!

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Freelance Solidarity Project @fspnwu.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Join FSP’s Rate Sharing Working Group on April 30 at 12pm ET for a drop-in rate sharing event and connect with your freelance colleagues. RSVP: forms.gle/a6cst6stvrRZ...

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FSP-NWU Rate Sharing Drop-in

Join us for the grand finale and final push of the National Writers Union’s Freelance Solidarity Challenge. In May 2024, we asked freelance media workers to commit to entering as many of their rates ...

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Freelance Solidarity Project @fspnwu.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

So far, the lowest hourly rate for freelancers in our #FreelanceSolidarityChallenge was an abysmal $3.33 an hour! Share your lowest rate here: bit.ly/share-rates

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Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Are you a freelance writer? Participate in FSP's Freelance Solidarity Challenge! Submit your rates and help us make pay for freelance writers what it should be—transparent.

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Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I'm taking some time out tonight to share my rates—and estimates of how long it took me to complete each project—in the FSP rate sharing tool as part of the Freelance Solidarity Challenge. Join me!!

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ændra. @aendra.com · 22/04/2025

Editors: I've created a starter pack of trans writers and journalists I follow. go.bsky.app/NoBfRE7

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SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 14/04/2025

TOMORROW, 4/15 at 10 AM PT is our Nickelodeon Animation Wages & Working Conditions meeting. If you've worked this agreement, we want to hear from YOU! #SagAftraMembers, let us know what is important to you as we prepare for negotiations. More info/RSVP: ow.ly/C2Gx50Vzi9q

On a light blue background with yellow accents in the corners. In the middle: Nickelodeon Animation Wages & Working Conditions Process.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 16/04/2025

Are you a journalism student looking to get on-the-job training? We are proud to host a Fall 2025 intern, thanks to Scripps Howard Fund! A great opportunity to gain hands-on experience and make a difference through impactful reporting. Apply by April 18th: mfp.ms/jobs

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Alexis Gunderson @alexiskg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Hey fellow entertainment critics guess what site that $15 is attached to!!!!!! @officialtca.bsky.social

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 15/04/2025

I love & support this, but makes me realise my rates are "whatever an editor or contractor tells me they have in their budget after vague chat about Artist Union England or CIEP rates which never really apply to what I'm doing." Also working for int'l publications means constant no idea.

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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Freelance friends: It would mean a lot to me, personally, if you'd share your rates in the @fspnwu.bsky.social rates database between now and May 1. It's part of a campaign I've been working on all year If you wanna come hang and do data together, join me April 30 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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FSP-NWU Rate Sharing Drop-in

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

i really urge people to look at the rates reported. it's so, so dark bsky.app/profile/fspn...

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Eric R. Danton @erdanton.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Yes! @iwwfju.bsky.social has also been maintaining a rate sheet for several years: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Because transparency is good: @certifiedforgot.bsky.social pays $75 per 1,000 words of original horror criticism, but we only have room in our budget for ~2 new pieces a month. Our hope is that, as our subscriber base grows, we can alternate adding new pieces with bumping our rates going forward.

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How To Pitch Certified Forgotten | Certified Forgotten

Have an idea for the next great Certified Forgotten essay? Here's how to secure your spot in our editorial calendar with a smart pitch.

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Freelance Solidarity Project @fspnwu.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

$100 for 2k words is a slap in the face to begin with. And then to not even pay? THIS is why we organize!

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Listen. Media is in the toilet. As freelance media workers, sharing our rates is a simple act of solidarity — as well as a step toward a better media industry. Enter your rates at bit.ly/share-rates #FreelanceSolidarityChallenge

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Rate Sharing - Freelance Solidarity Project

Our goal is to create a comprehensive database of rates for digital media freelancers across the industry.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 14/04/2025

Love storytelling?📝 Want to learn from award-winning journalists?🏆 This is your sign! We’re teaming up with the Scripps Howard Fund to offer a paid fall 2025 journalism internship at Mississippi Free Press! For more information and to apply: buff.ly/ijvHl8v

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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I made it 20 years before everything fell apart, but even then the hours were brutal, the pay didn't make up for it, even though the money I made was incredible comparatively. And now everything is an affiliate link so the algo and commerce editors are in charge. Dismal. Subscribe to Aftermath.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 14/04/2025

The Mississippi Free Press is looking for new Voices writers. Submit opinion columns to the MFP at voices@mississippifreepress.org.

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Freelance Solidarity Project @fspnwu.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What if sharing our freelancer rates was something we did as routinely as taxes? Enter your rates today at bit.ly/share-rates! It’s a mundane act of solidarity that helps us build campaigns for fair pay. #FreelanceSolidarityChallenge

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Rate Sharing - Freelance Solidarity Project

Our goal is to create a comprehensive database of rates for digital media freelancers across the industry.

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Dave @unioncard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

As a member of the NWU's Translators Organizing Committee, I highly recommend all translators check this out!

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

now, as always, I'm really proud to be part of this union. i have met some amazing comrades and am consistently proud of the bold stances we take. please reach out if you're making media and not yet unionized -- we would love to have you!!!

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National Writers Union @nwu.org · 05/04/2025

HANDS OFF in Buffalo, NY! The threat of rain couldn’t stop the huge crowd that turned out in support of democracy, labor, immigrants, health equity, and human rights.

Image of a crowd near a monument in Buffalo, NY during a Hands Off rally.

Image of four people showing off their “Hands Off” signs: Hands Off Public Education, Hands Off PBS & NPR

Image of a large building with a crowd gathered during a Hands Off rally in Buffalo, NY

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National Writers Union @nwu.org · 05/04/2025

HANDS OFF in New York City! The crowd is dense all around as labor unions, civil rights organizations, and other activist groups speak out against tyranny.

A crowd of people gathered outside a Hands Off rally in New York City, waiting to get into the main rally

Another photo of the crowd in the street at New York City’s Hands Off rally

Crowds in the streets of New York City at the intersection of 34th and 5th

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Kacey Carpenter @kaceycarpenter.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

@thenwu.bsky.social Over 1,000 strong in Tigard, Oregon! NWU Oregon leaders showed up loud and proud with our shirts, buttons, hats, and signs at the #HandsOff protest! United voices. Unbreakable spirit. #NWUOregon #HandsOff #Solidarity #UnionStrong Shirts on. Signs up. Voices loud. Let’s go!

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