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Topic: Another personal essay question
| Author | Message |
| Katie | Posted – 4/2/2008 11:14:30 AM | show profile | email poster So, what is the pay structure for these. I know what I get paid for a profile or cover story. Does this vary by pub.? |
| mad fingers | Posted – 4/2/2008 12:26:37 PM | show profile Sure does. |
| Katie | Posted – 4/2/2008 1:22:57 PM | show profile | email poster Ballpark would be??? |
| Newsy | Posted – 4/2/2008 1:33:19 PM | show profile Have you checked out the personal essay two-part series MediaBistro did in January? A lot of the essays paid between $500-$1000, depending on type, size of publication, of course. Good luck! |
| Katie | Posted – 4/2/2008 1:52:44 PM | show profile | email poster Thank you! |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 4/2/2008 2:03:37 PM | show profile In my experience, most publications pay the same word rate for everything -- if they pay a buck a word for features, they'll pay a buck a word for essays. |
| Village Gal | Posted – 4/2/2008 2:04:32 PM | show profile depends, those sound like magazine rates. you won't get that from a newspaper. |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 4/2/2008 3:41:29 PM | show profile The rates I was quoted was original essays for magazines. With newspapers, I have sold a lot of reprint essays. I haven't done that for 5 or 10 years, when I was writing a weekly self-syndicated humor column and would send some of the columns out widely to see who would bite. At the time, really low circulation newspapers paid anywhere from $10 to $40, while the big ones paid $75 to $200. This was for 700 word humorous essays. --depends, those sound like magazine rates. you won't get that from a newspaper.-- |
| snappiness | Posted – 4/2/2008 9:51:35 PM | show profile I've published essays, cover stories and FOB stuff and like dribble says I get the per-word rate each mag pays, no matter what type of story it is. |
