A spreadsheet leaked to Gawker's Hamilton Nolan suggests that newly spun-off Time Inc. rates writers, in part, on how "beneficial" their work is to advertiser relationships: "Would you believe that this once-proud magazine publishing empire is now explicitly rating its editorial employees based on how friendly their writing is to advertisers?" More from Nieman Journalism Lab, and a Time Inc. reply from Norman Pearlstine.
August 29, 2014