Do the conflict-of-interest rules that apply to staff writers also apply to freelancers? They might, at some outlets, and freelancers may be surprised to learn that, Whitney Pipkin writes: "How should someone who works for a dozen clients with various funding models determine what constitutes a conflict? And — in an American economy that could be 40 percent freelance by 2020 — is it enough to have a policy that doesn’t separately address the nuances of contract work?"
March 14, 2016