Try Gabriele Skelton
Is $40 for 500 words considered a high rate? The lowest I've been paid is $125 for 500 words and that was FSBR too. I get 20% on secondary usage...
I submit direct to magazines and newspapers or contact PR agencies and then show them my tearsheets. Because of that I have a job interview...
Ooh Phil, you're just down the road from me. Actually when hiring I look at tearsheets and then price.
If someone came to me asking for a price I would give them a price in $s (well £s in my case), rather than price per word, and hope that I'd got...
Find better writers. Really good writers will be able to give you exactly what you want with little or no subbing work required. Sure, you'll have...
As in most things, you get what you pay for.
I charge exactly I'm offered/contracted. When I'm doing magazine work I get from 50c to $1.50 a word, airfare not needed. (which will surprise a...
Me, because my tearsheet list is scary: national newspapers, international magazines, television companies, MNCs, you name it.
For me the best length is whatever the employer asks for. The shortest was 50 words, the longest 6,000.
I work for the political correspondents at The Times. I have a degree in politics. Curiously enough, it's not something I've ever actually been...
This is a really good and succinct definition, IMO.
I work for all three (in the UK) and I'm not aware of anyone who is employed solely to write headlines - it's generally a group effort between the...
Really top notch writers can come up with the strap in seconds. I've worked in the press for over 20 years and I feel that I'm struggling if it...
Separate names with a comma.
