Recent letters highlight, once again, the contempt with which publishers now seem to regard journalists.
Freelances
fare even worse than staffers. Horse and Hound, a very successful IPC
weekly magazine, boasting over 100 pages every issue, offers the
wonderful rate of £120 per 1,000 words – half the rate posted on the
NUJ web site for the same paper in 1995.
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