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The site now contains thousands of reports, most depressingly meagre, each a snapshot of the state of the industry from the point of view of freelancers. Over all, Martin says, writers can expect to earn about $100-250 for online articles at the big publications (The Atlantic, Salon, The Nation). The rates are higher for print, where many publications still pay by the word, and lower for book reviews and literary journals. (Martin emphasized that the data she collects is self-reported by writers and is not verified by publications. Salon declined to comment for this article. I reached out to The Atlantic for comment but did not hear back before publication.)

On the one hand, yay! I’m a professional freelance journalist. On the other hand, look what I have to put up with in order to make a living wage.

(From here.)

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More than half of Fox’s misleading coverage (53%) was from one program, The Five, where the hosts often instigated misleading debates about established climate science. In general, Fox hosts and guests were more likely than those of other networks to disparage the study of climate science and criticize scientists… To further improve accuracy, the most productive step Fox News could take would be for hosts and guests to better differentiate between scientific facts about climate change and political opinions about climate policy.

From here.
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He also praised Simon Cowell’s You Generation brand, a YouTube-focused global talent show, and Disney for the way it encouraged fans of its film Frozen to post their own cover versions of its songs on YouTube. One by musician Alex Boyé has been watched more than 30m times.

“The studio could have very easily issued copyright claims against this video and any others and taken them down, but they made a different choice: a fan-friendly choice. They chose to let those videos stay,” said Carloss, suggesting that the buzz around Frozen on YouTube contributed to its strong performance at the box office.

“Creators everywhere can make the choice Disney did. Allow fans to pay tribute, and you will see the incredible benefits of their passion.”

YouTube’s global head of entertainment Alex Carloss on the new relationship between content creators and audiences.

There’s something to be written by someone smarter than me about the new relationship creators have to accept about ownership of their content these days. Being old and reactionary, I’m surprised to see the widespread acceptance of and eagerness towards the popularization of and monetizing of fan content that steals intellectual property from its owners online.

You own your work until others are “inspired” by it, it seems.

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The publisher of both titles, St Joseph Media, was accused by the government of violating provincial labour laws. It responded by dispensing with the internship programmes.

Another Toronto-based magazine owned by Torstar, The Grid, reacted by dismissing five unpaid interns.

Yes, that’s right: Rather than paying them, two separate magazines in Canada just fired all their interns instead. Cheap holidays in other people’s misery indeed.
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The venerable Spidey616 asks, “The most recent solicits have readers worried that [Matt] Fraction’s ‘Hawkeye’ is coming to an end. Please say it ain’t so, or if it is we’ll be getting a relaunch?”

Alonso: Too soon to comment on the rumors, Spidey616. But I will say that I’m very excited about the future of Hawkguy.

So, obviously the current Hawkeye series is coming to an end based on that non-answer from Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso. The only question is whether it’ll be relaunched with Fraction attached or not. I mean, surely yes, and yet…
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Look at T4 [on Channel 4] – it went away, now there is very little youth programming going on. BBC3 was something that … of course there was the odd questionable title, as there is with any channel, but it was really specifically targeted at making documentaries for young people.

It was educating them, nurturing them, saying you are important, we are gifting you with knowledge that will arm you in later life. We are not doing that, we are expecting them to find it for themselves and everything is online now. Everyone is becoming very separated in the next generation, chatting on Facebook and Twitter. They are becoming isolated.

That’s Jameela Jamil, talking about the closing of BBC3 in the UK. I’ve no real experience of the channel, and so no real opinion about whether or not it’s a loss, but the idea of a generation being “abandoned” to the Internet is something that sticks in my head – I’m not sure whether or not I agree with the premise, or even if the idea that the Internet is less suited to educate people on life than television, but it sticks inside nonetheless, poking and prodding towards a question I haven’t managed to form yet.
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Look at T4 [on Channel 4] – it went away, now there is very little youth programming going on. BBC3 was something that … of course there was the odd questionable title, as there is with any channel, but it was really specifically targeted at making documentaries for young people.

It was educating them, nurturing them, saying you are important, we are gifting you with knowledge that will arm you in later life. We are not doing that, we are expecting them to find it for themselves and everything is online now. Everyone is becoming very separated in the next generation, chatting on Facebook and Twitter. They are becoming isolated.

That’s Jameela Jamil, talking about the closing of BBC3 in the UK. I’ve no real experience of the channel, and so no real opinion about whether or not it’s a loss, but the idea of a generation being “abandoned” to the Internet is something that sticks in my head – I’m not sure whether or not I agree with the premise, or even if the idea that the Internet is less suited to educate people on life than television, but it sticks inside nonetheless, poking and prodding towards a question I haven’t managed to form yet.