Fast Company's Reyhan Harmanci thinks that editors who rely on freelancers are shortchanging themselves and their readers, because staff writers are more reliable and do better work: "As an editor, when I want to assign a breaking story, I look around to staff. It doesn’t seem fair to pay someone $200 for a post but then demand it be fast and good." Randy Dotinga, president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, begs to differ.
December 22, 2014