• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    Valens said on her stream that she was paid $30 an article; a contributor to the previous iteration of Waypoint, Nick Capozzoli, said rates used to be at least $300.

    Holy shit.

    I’ve dabbled a bit in writing tech articles. I was published in a print magazine >20 years ago, and I think I got around $300 for it. More recently, a few articles I did for a niche tech website went for $100 each.

    $30/article? For a site that has Vice behind it? Yeah, pretty easy to walk away from that money.

    • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
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      6 days ago

      I had to do a double take at the idea waypoint exists after they fired the entire team (by accident) a few years ago