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NYC freelancer comrades! Go hang out with @fspnwu.bsky.social organizer and member Kayti this afternoon and share your rates IRL!

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New York City friends! Make me the most jealous @fspnwu.bsky.social organizer in the world by meeting up with Kayti in person this Thursday to commiserate over our bleak industry, and build community and solidarity with your fellow freelancers!

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If you're in NYC this Thursday, I am hosting a casual @fspnwu.bsky.social meetup to take part in the rate-sharing challenge. It will be from 4-6pm at Spring Cafe Aspen. Bring your laptop to enter rates into the challenge's Google form, and get to know fellow freelance workers! RSVP: bit.ly/41OXdjg

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And even more 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 If you want to help your fellow freelancer friends (& any ex-VF enemies) understand what the actual freelance media worker $$ landscape is these days, come add YOUR rates to WPW & the @fspnwu.bsky.social Rate Sharing Database! freelancesolidarity.org/actions-camp...

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We've received so many great pitches that we will be closing to further pitches tonight at midnight CT, and reopening next quarter. We know this may be dismaying news for some, but we don't want to trap great writing in a lengthy backlog!

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We're hosting a Dart Center training for journalists who need more tools to cope with stress, trauma, and burnout right now. 📅 March 12 🕛 9am PT / 12pm ET 🖥️ On zoom Open to TJA members. We'll record the training, too. Register now 👇 members.transjournalists.org/event-6091290

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Publish your rates! –> @whopayswriters.bsky.social Also: Unionize. This is for that: @fspnwu.bsky.social

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

there are simply too many stories and not enough paid journalists to write them all. this is by design.

submitted 62 days ago • 53 comments

SO COOL that Vox Media had two rounds of layoffs in the past three months and keeps cutting our budgets and yet somehow there's $20 million for one person

submitted 62 days ago • 134 comments

Since last March, @nymagunion.bsky.social has been negotiating a new contract. But Vox Media has refused to meet us halfway on basic issues including giving us meaningful wage increases, controlling health care costs, and offering reasonable protections around AI in our workplace.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Our colleagues at @nymagunion.bsky.social need your support! Sign the NY Mag Reader Pledge to honor the picket line in the event of a unit walkout, and pass it on! nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Join us for session 1 of our 3-part training series on legal, physical, & digital safety for freelancers & independent journalists, organized in collaboration with the Committee to Protect Journalists, @reporterscommittee.bsky.social, and Aegis Safety Alliance. RSVP: bit.ly/FSP-safety-trainings

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

We are ecstatic to report that the charges against our member and independent journalist @alissaazar.bsky.social were DROPPED. This is a strong reminder of the power of public pressure as protecting press freedom becomes even more critical. Read Alissa's story: buff.ly/40u8Qub

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

We're hiring over at @theprospect.bsky.social. Two writing fellow positions are open. Those are perfect for early career journalists. We're also hiring a managing editor. Take a look over at prospect.org/careers. DM me if you have any questions or interested candidates.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to this! I encourage my other journo and journo adjacent followers to tune in, too. Come hear about how anti-Palestine bias shapes the news and journalists' working conditions.

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Freelance solidarity who? Our January 28 info session is a great place to learn more about the history of FSP-NWU and our current and future organizing projects. RSVP to join us Tuesday at 7:30pm ET! buff.ly/3KU9M4e

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

don’t write for new spin. see: their transphobic op-ed, u.s. army partnership, etc.

submitted 72 days ago • 7 comments

Amazing news! Welcome Athletic journalists to better job security, better pay, better benefits and a better workplace!

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As we enter 2025, we know one thing for sure—groceries aren’t getting any cheaper and exposure still doesn’t pay for them! Want to push for higher rates next year? RSVP for the @fspnwu.bsky.social x @indiejournalists.bsky.social webinar Negotiate Like a Rockstar on 1/17: bit.ly/rockstarnegotiator

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We're hiring! The 19th is seeking a part-time contract reporter to report and write articles about the economy, focusing on how politics and policies impact women and LGBTQ+ people. Learn more and apply here:

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Second day of 2025, second-to-last day to apply for a job at Hell Gate 📅 We're accepting applications for our open writer-editor and PT marketing/advertising manager roles til tomorrow, January 3. Apps to [email protected] 📨 and more details below:

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I decided to start of 2025 by setting up small monthly donations to some independent media: @bolts.bsky.social, @truthout.org, @assignedmedia.org, @azluminaria.bsky.social, @flaminghydra.com, @mississippifreepress.org We are going to need them (these and others) more than ever this year!

submitted 92 days ago • 4 comments

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... THE 2025 MINICOMIC AWARD SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! 🎉🎉 Submit your mini comic from 2024 for consideration from now until February 1st!! cartoonist.coop/the-minicomi...

submitted 92 days ago • 4 comments

it's easy to apply to join the co-op... we're free, there's a library of member resources and discounts, collaboration opportunities on our forum and much more... if you've been hesitating, now is the time to start the new year fresh! cartoonist.coop/join/

submitted 94 days ago • 8 comments

Fiction writers! “Three-Lobed Burning Eye is seeking original, unpublished speculative fiction: including horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction. Payment is US $.08 per word for short stories or (1,500–7,499 words) or flash fiction (500–1,499 words); plus one copy of the print anthology.”

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Are you a freelancer tallying up this year's earnings and coming up short? We are too! Join us in calling for at least $1/word and schedule a call with a member of @fspnwu.bsky.social's Book Critics Working Group to find out more about organizing with us! buff.ly/49PSvo3

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Writers! Tag us in your end-of-year “what I wrote & what I got paid” threads and we’ll share them to our feed here. Nothing merrier than transparency and solidarity with our fellow creative workers ✊🎄💸

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I'm going to do a quick year-end freelancing thread! It's a shorter one this year: Finding the right writing/teaching/toddler parenting balance has taken a bit of time, but I've finally found my footing (as much as anyone can). And I had the pleasure of working on some great assignments.

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Writers! Tag us in your end-of-year “what I wrote & what I got paid” threads and we’ll share them to our feed here. Nothing merrier than transparency and solidarity with our fellow creative workers ✊🎄💸

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✊🎉WE HAVE A DEAL 🎉✊ We are thrilled to announce we have reached a tentative three-year agreement with @nytimes.com, pending ratification by our members. There’s so much to share but here are just a few highlights of the deal:

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Remember in October when @nymag.com published its annual Power Issue with members of the “media elite?" Well, @nymagunion.bsky.social thought you might want to hear from media workers themselves. Introducing our union Power Issue: MEDIA WORKERS TELL ALL!

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Hello Bluesky. Sucks that this is our first post. A statement from the Vox Media Union and @wgaeast.bsky.social on today's layoffs. Please stay tuned for more details on how you can support our colleagues who were impacted today.

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Hi. We’re Pop Heist. We exist because pop culture media is a hellscape. (We're doing something different.) 🧵 popheist.com

submitted 122 days ago • 9 comments

support local dc news!!

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#ReadPalestineWeek kicks off on Friday. For @truthout.org, I spoke to three writers in Gaza about what the initiative means to them and the actions they want readers and culture workers in the West to take to end the occupation. Read it here: truthout.org/articles/my-...

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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

submitted 128 days ago • 39 comments

We read all the cold pitches we receive, and we've had at least one writer get their very first print byline in the last five issues. Send us your best ideas to [email protected] - we look forward to hearing from you

submitted 130 days ago • 5 comments

Survival won't be enough these next four years & beyond. We gotta be building robust, supportive communities that exist offline too. If you're interested in building community & the labor movement, join us: actionnetwork.org/forms/gen-u-...

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“Join a labor union, a social movement, a political party, a tenant union, a community organization, a book club. Literally anything is better than sitting at home and scrolling on your phone and getting mad at the news.”

submitted 131 days ago • 6 comments

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

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🚨 Are you a dues-paying member of a union? You can get a year subscription to @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social for free. Thanks to my fellow FSP member Pete Tosiello for the tip! w1.buysub.com/pubs/IF/ITT/...

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With nearly 80% of freelancers dealing with nonpayment, our union is building up our version of a strike fund to send a message to media companies who hire freelancers that when they don't pay, we will fight! Will you contribute? www.zeffy.com/fundraising/...

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ICYMI: Our members at McGee Media secured the first WGAE nonfiction TV contract with guaranteed paid parental leave! Read more about their gains via @hollywoodreporter.com.web.brid.gy ✊ www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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can't recommend this enough! it has been amazing to meet more colleagues across this industry and has benefited me directly in my work & pay too #Freelance #writer

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As we enter a time focused on thankfulness, if you are thankful for the books you have read, but are also making room for new ones, consider sharing them with people who are behind bars.

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