Ben "Abe" Yagoda pens a dispiriting piece in Slate about the Economics of Freelance Writing (summary: it's a buyer's market, they pay scale is unchanged in unadjusted dollar amounts since 1978, it's dispiriting, but getting your word in print is good).

Interesting to note that Ben Yagoda has these issues - a published biographer (his Will Rogers bio is a good read). And that he appears to have moved to shore up his income by heading the J program at the U of Delaware - ah, academia!

I look forward to the Romenesko take on this.

Posted by esinclai at August 27, 2005 09:49 PM |