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stringer, Blogging and decent money

Well, it appears that writing for the newspaper is pretty much moribund. In
particular garden writing.

And magazines are dropping writers, editors and other hard working people of
words, thoughts and soul.

Is literacy dying? Horticultural literacy?
We shall see when the economy turns in a few years. In the meantime what are
all the writers going to do?

Martha Stoodley
pen name Molly Day at http://muskogeephoenixonline.com/blogs/MollyDay/

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Doreen Howard <gardendiva@charter.net>wrote:

> Doug Green wrote:
>
>
> http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/27/new-york-times-expected-to-launch-local-blog-network-on-monday/Watch for it on MondayEt tut?The Chicago Tribune ran an ad in their Sunday
> classifieds last month for"editorial staff" who could cover neighborhoods,
> local events and such.They could work out of their houses, but they had to
> be available by phonewithin 30 minutes of an assignment call.That means,
> folks, you make yourself available, seven days a week, waitingfor an
> assignment that might pay $50.I, too, was a stringer when I was a teenager,
> for the L.A. Times.  That waseons ago.  I made more than that in today's
> dollars.Feeling like a dinosaur,Doreen Howard
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