With every new media product comes a new set of business standards and practices, Joseph Lichterman writes, focusing on the Association of Independents in Radio and its new benchmarks for payments to freelancers producing podcasts: "AIR, an advocacy group for independent radio producers, has previously worked with NPR and other public media outlets to establish freelance pay rates, but this is the first time AIR has explicitly addressed payment for work on podcasts."
July 16, 2015