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when you don't phrase the hex specifically enough
Cops, which has been on television for 33 seasons since 1989, has been cancelled.
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This is wild because $40K is both less than what we, a much smaller and younger company, pay any of our FT staff AND less than the average incomes reported in our survey. So, like, maybe don’t tag us?
We’re hiring an assistant editor! The role is full-time and based in New York City.
@WritersofColor
@NABJ
@aaja
@NAHJ
@nlgja
@DisabledWriters
@najournalists
@sajahq
@womenjournos
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we don’t allow transphobes on the listserv sorry company policy :/
Bit messed up for
@studyhallxyz
, a newsletter geared at helping freelance writers, of which I am one, and cofounded by someone who made a HILARIOUS joke about me being murdered for my journalism, to run this.
@AllegraEHobbs
, let's do a Q&A. Ask me whatever you want!
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SH is proud to announce a new initiative: the Negative Bloomberg Meme Microgrant!
1) Make and post an original meme about Michael Bloomberg's history of racism, islamophobia, sexism, etc.
2) Tag Study Hall
3) We venmo you $5
4) everyone enjoys the meme!
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the taboo around not talking about your salary is not only dumb, it keeps your POC colleagues from getting paid what they deserve
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Please don’t launder your underpaying media jobs by tagging
@studyhallxyz
in a Twitter post k thanks 🥰
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What is your least favorite journalism term? i'll go first:
nut graf
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Dozens of Study Hall members have decided to no longer write for
@outline
. Our statement:
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journalists can have little a opinion on the future of their lives, as a treat
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VICE underpays its employees, expects them to work 60 hours a week, uses the profit they produce to buy their CEO a $23 million mansion, and then lays them off with no warning - it is vampiric and despicable.
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i'm sorry but if a source told me something that was off by $2.4 million dollars i would never talk to that source again
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some people are really mean to our staffers who work tirelessly to make study hall function. If you’re sending emails to us and you’re extremely rude, we will kick you out of study hall. $4 a month is not enough to purchase a license to be an asshole.
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We got a hold of The Wing's full membership contract, which most members never see.
TL;DR, the feminist co-working space can sue you if you say mean things about them.
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as always, we're also commissioning media news stories, profiles, features, essays, and investigations for rates from $250-$1k. Pitch erin.schwartz
@studyhall
.xyz
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if you want to divulge the shitty things happening at your media company, but are afraid of the repercussions, you can always dm us or email allegra
@studyhall
.xyz and we will report on it and keep you 100 percent anonymous. we take protecting sources extremely seriously.
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1. Over the past 10 years digital media was heavily funded by venture capital in the belief that scaling up to be as big as possible and selling as many ads / sponsored content as possible was the best way to make money.
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cops are a threat to journalism, and should be treated as such by journalists.
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omg we love u glenn <3
@jessesingal
Study Hall is the perfect name for this group of tattletale, rule-obsessed, petulant journalistic hall monitors who beg corporations to enforce rules against others whose views they dislike. I can scarcely imagine a more repulsive creature than authoritarian cretins who do this.
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Freelancers operate on razor-thin margins and are going to be hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. We've decided to making the Study Hall Digest and our weekly opportunities newsletter unpaywalled for the foreseeable future to spread news of paying gigs
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Arby's has bought Harper's Magazine. it's now Arby's Magazine
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It's Funny to Me, Actually, that after all of the VC froth, the media companies that are doing best are the massive legacy operations with deep, longterm connections to readers.
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5. The pandemic wiped out advertising because advertisers have nothing to market and start demanding not to have ads next to coronavirus content
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study hall is looking for a bird correspondent — either an intrepid journalist who covers birds or a bird who is also a journalist
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2. These publications got huge audiences and online footprints and made revenue, but were still losing tons of money to Facebook and Google and digital ad middlemen: lots of layers between publications and advertisers.
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Our members are keeping track of which publications are cutting or tightening their freelance budgets in regards to the pandemic. Check it out here or email any tips to info
@studyhall
.xyz
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10. New media ventures will be aimed at developing massive paid subscriber bases and selling them more products directly, just like........ print magazines and newspapers in the 20th century. Digital advertising is nice but not the only pillar of a legacy media co
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We're hiring a 3 month contract position to write our weekly digests -- looking for fast, inquisitive, media-obsessed people.
Pay: 2k a month for 12.5 hours of work a week
Deadline: April 21
If all goes well, it can turn into a longer-term position
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Glenn Greenwald is welcome to join Study Hall at any time if he would like a brief explainer on what an edit memo is
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9. Basically: Digital advertising is still monopolized by Facebook and Google, thus totally fickle to news events and fundamentally unreliable as a majority source of income for media businesses. Need the other revenue streams: Subscribers, B2B products, IP...
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in honor of James Bennet's resignation, drop your favorite bad NYT op ed below with a few sentences on why it's special to you
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In the best job posting i've ever seen, the International Museum of the Horse is hiring a team of Black Kentucky-based horse girls to create content for their new site
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3. In the past few years, the VC optimism ran out and people started freaking out about being profitable (or trying to sell their publications, which only a few did). Paywalls and subscriptions to the rescue! Smaller scale but more dependable.
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6. Live events are now nonexistent in quarantine. That’s something The Atlantic had invested heavily in. Its majority owner, Emerson Collective, also owns Pop-Up Magazine, which just started doing video instead of IRL.
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we are happy to announce study hall has hired glenn greenwald! he is our new intern (unpaid). we think he’ll make a great addition to the team.
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Cats out of the bag! We’re excited to announce Andrew Sullivan and Bari Weiss are joining Study Hall!
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Why I'm Against Unions, by the Man Who Probably Makes $300k a Year For Articles No One Reads and Who Will Probably Have His Salary Revealed During the Unionization Process
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if large swathes of your industry are quitting or going on leave due to trauma and burnout, perhaps yoga-level solutions arent going to cut it
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average journalist salary: $38,000
j school tuition: $12 jillion
someone who is good at math please help my industry is dying
good lord: a master's degree in data journalism from columbia — a 12-month program at the gold standard for j-schools — will cost you
wait for it
you're not ready for this
you literally will not believe it
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how is this not a broken system
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if it seems like we're being harsh on Condé Nast recently, its not personal. we just bought too many é's last month and they're going to expire soon if we dont use them
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We're creating another media job! Apply to be Study Hall's first assistant editor, a job that could be a lot of different things depending on your skills but will involve training and a supportive environment.
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all study hall staff are taking tomorrow (tuesday) thru friday off for our mental wellbeing (the world is collapsing, in case u haven't noticed)
plz note we won't be answering emails during this time, but will likely still post shitty memes.
thank u for ur patience.
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(Sidenote: ecommerce and affiliate marketing revenue came in here to shore things up / provide another model. Congrats to Wirecutter (a NYT company))
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Full-time freelance should not exist
Why are you hiring for a full-time position without benefits,
@FastCompany
@FastCoDesign
? It's not competitive if you're not including health insurance.
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7. The places not doing layoffs are those that invested most in expensive subscriptions: NYT, WaPo, Boston Globe — and those that are using VC to develop subscriptions: The Information, The Athletic. The Atlantic has tons of new subscribers, but not like NYT.
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NYT Style has quickly become one of the most innovative, interesting editorial projects around. How does
@Choire
do it? Our profile, by
@jessicawakeman
. Unpaywalled!
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does anyone else feel like some media CEOs were itching to do these layoffs anyway? 🤔
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Our takeaway from writer year in reviews so far is Medium is paying $$$$ 👀
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This is media in 2020. Subscribe to Study Hall, a subscription-only media company that does not spend more money than our members provide us:
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i am old enough to remember when the best way to get an editor's email was to DM a friend or acquaintance who had written for them. this is such a bad practice — it makes media more elitist and freezes out people who don't have a network that includes more established writers
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if your media co is dying..... try paying white male staffers less than $250k / year
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We are hiring a new full-time Editorial Operations Director! Check out the listing here.
- ~$60k / year
- Health insurance etc subsidies
- Strict 30 hrs / week
- Develop cool media reporting and educational content
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On nonprofits: Great stuff is happening like Texas Tribune, but those really require an ironclad constitution and funding and by nature can't be flipped or sold or merged (?) Would love to see NONPROFIT NYT that networks every regional nonprofit
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4. The companies reoriented around high-end content (IP / longform), B2B products, subscriptions, live events, but still lots of digital (and maybe print) advertising and sponsored content.
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(Sidenote: Newsletter companies seem to be doing alright because they have a closer relationship with readers and advertisers and much smaller staffs, since it's a lot of curation vs original content. Also already paid subs!)
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A long-time dream of Study Hall is to act as an agency to negotiate freelance contracts for media talent so shit like this doesn't happen. If you're a lawyer or agent who wants to talk about this, please email kyle
@studyhall
.xyz
vox paid me $500 a week to edit a show of someone who got a full salary and benefits while I wasn't allowed to freelance elsewhere with promise I would be hired full-time. i was laid off the day after Thanksgiving 2018
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8. Subscriptions are growing but not fast enough to offset the mounting losses, which, who knows when ads will come back. Hence The Atlantic and its previous child-company Quartz doing big layoffs.
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hey!! we are looking for an illustrator for an upcoming feature next week. We want some real anime vibes, like slice-of-life TV show, a little chibi... if you're interested or know anyone, reply to this tweet with a link to a portfolio. Paid well and immediately!
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we're hiring a part-time community lead!
-interface w/ study hall members
-make sure everyone in the community feels well represented
-help organize freelancers into powerful coalitions
$1,500/mo for 10-15 hrs a week.
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Some exciting news:
@vmochama
is joining Study Hall as assistant editor! Vicky will join the team working on SH's editorial content, including the Digest, Opportunities newsletter, and our original criticism and reporting. Welcome, Vicky!!
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Study Hall is hiring our first-ever community organizer:
— $1000 / month / 3 mo initial contract
— Roughly 10 hrs / week
— Figure out how to organize freelance writers
— Experiment w/ labor in the media industry
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(Sidenote: all that lost revenue -> immediate needs to do layoffs! AFAIK pubs don't even get that digital ad revenue immediately (print def doesn't), so they're facing the prospect of future income just crumbling)
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On podcasts: Ad rates on podcasts are still (maybe artificially) high because they're not as automated and don't have as many middlemen. Podcasts also have a much deeper connection with listeners than a random blog post, and so can sell more stuff via ads.
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With the news about Rev, try going to a journalist directly for transcription. Here's a database of our members who do fast-turnaround work for $1+ minute, with their past clients & websites:
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I think of Studyhall's Magazine, est. 1843, as an intellectual salon for open conversation — a salon of my friends, who all agree with each other, and with me
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We're very, very excited to share Off the Record, an interactive narrative on the reality working as a journalist of color. it's written by
@FarahColette
and coded by Mary Truong
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i think the most important ingredient in writing is realizing that other people aren't you
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all
@wirecutterunion
wants for Christmas is a union contract — instead, management is running social accounts as if nothing's happening while staff is striking. read more in this week's digest:
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how would you headline a piece about Bon Appetit? We were thinking...
Bad Rapport: The Rap on Adam Rappaport
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Leaked messages from Neo-Nazi groups show that journalists often play right into white supremacists' hands.
In the Study Hall Anti-Fascist Media Guide, Erin Corbett and
@ekingc
show how that happens, and how to stop it.
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unfortunately we had to let go of glenn this morning after learning about some troubling tweets
we are happy to announce study hall has hired glenn greenwald! he is our new intern (unpaid). we think he’ll make a great addition to the team.
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Study Hall’s statement on Bustle’s Mic acquisition and the increasing precarity for workers in the media industry. We call on media workers to join us in our efforts to fight for better pay, work conditions and
#MediaTransparency
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For a donation of $100 we’ll take one of your tote bags away from you
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how do i fight the Dollar Shave Club
Staffers at MEL Magazine were all laid off today by owner Dollar Shave Club. MEL will stop publishing and is looking for a new owner
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"If the only thing you’re ever going to let us do is write about Black things, but you have white people covering the Black things, when are we ever gonna get a chance to write?"
read
@adlankj
's longform on segregation at the heart of music journalism:
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(the Negative Bloomberg Meme Microgrant fund can support 60 memes. after that it's just for the culture. sorry about that but we don't want to spend all our money on memes)
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wake up in the morning, have my coffee, get on the phone and start begging corporations to fire journalists
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we're so glad everyone is sharing the rates they got for the pieces they wrote this year.....now if only more men would do it too :)
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if you've been with us since that first little green bar, thank u ;). we wouldn't be here without u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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as a New Jerseyan, this editor of course loves David Brooks' piece on his 100% real poor friend, who is afraid of gabagool
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you: exploit the labor of transcribers, anonymize them so they can't interact with customers, take their money, give inconsistent results.
we: list transcribers who you can get to know and who have diverse areas of expertise, and don't take a commission.
we are not the same.
got really fast and accurate transcription done through the
@studyhallxyz
transcription mailing list. felt much better than throwing money at Rev, would highly recommend. (also, hilariously, rev buys ads on top of searches of "study hall transcribers")
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On Patreon and Substack: Small-scale subscriptions are great and reader loyalty is great but there's a big need for help making the leap from $200k in annual revenue to $2 mil that will sustain a slightly larger news / commentary organization.
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i have been thinking about how much i love mini-beats, aka a subcategory in a magazine's subject area that the mag seems especially interested in covering. there usually isnt a clear reason why, its just a matter of newsroom culture
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