Freelance Survival: What’s A Joke Worth?

Saturday, May 2, 2009

What’s A Joke Worth?

Not even late-night TV pays well, according to this New York Magazine article:

an underground network of freelance joke writers [...] get paid between $75 and $100 for each joke of theirs that manages to make it on air

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About Laura Moorhead

Laura Moorhead has worked in publishing for more than 15 years. Prior to joining IDEO’s marketing and communications team as brand editor, Laura worked at Wired for eleven years. There, she was a senior editor at the magazine for six years; prior to that, she worked as an executive producer for Wired News and HotWired. Most recently, Laura worked for two years as a contract editor and writer at PBS Frontline/World. Laura has also held staff positions at McGraw-Hill, Henry Holt, and The Saturday Evening Post.

Laura is a co-author of Cocktail: The Drinks Bible for the 21st Century, a James Beard Awards finalist. She has contributed to the Food & Wine Magazine Annual Cookbook, as well as Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age. She has written for a variety of publications, including Yoga Journal, Time Out!, Food and Wine, and Wired. In her ongoing life as a part-time graduate student, Laura studies the moments when the media collide with history and crisis. Laura has presented several academic papers on the topic, including one about the impact of the press on San Francisco’s bubonic plague (to the Society for the Social History of Medicine at Glasgow University) and another on the scientific writing of journalist Robert Chambers (for the Darwin Day Symposium at Stanford University).

Laura is also the blog and journalism adviser to the middle schoolers of Hillwood Academic Day School in San Francisco. She has been an instructor with San Francisco State University’s Multimedia Program since 1998.

Freelance Survival

Saturday, May 2, 2009

What’s A Joke Worth?

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