Science writers and the "gig economy"

It's no secret that full-time writing jobs are increasingly scarce, and that per-word pay for freelance work has stagnated even as stories have grown shorter. Now, on the Last Word on Nothing blog, several writers sound off on what this means for journalism: "If you want lots of good stories, you need to give someone time, and when you’re freelancing, all the incentives are pushing you to spend as little time as possible on each thing and move on to the next thing."

July 25, 2014

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