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	I suspect that the 100-odd reporters, columnists and reviewers
actively contributing to The American Reporter comprise the largest and
most diverse group of freelancers at any Net-based publication.  Our
contributors earn equity in the publication when they write for it, earn
revenues from the resale of their individuals stories, and are given back
all rights to their stories immediately upon its publication (although we
ask them to hold off selling breaking news pieces and hot features for a
day or two after we publish it).  Now that a major publisher is consider-
ing a book based on one of our continuing columns, this question came into
sharp focus.  Did the newspaper have any rights in the column, we were 
asked, and if so, what would they cost the writer or the publisher to buy 
them.  The answer:  once you published it, all rights in it were 
immediately returned to you, and the profits from a future republication 
are all yours -- no ifs, ands or buts.  I think they liked that.

Best,

Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
joeshea@netcom.com
http://www.newshare.com:9999


On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Todd Engdahl wrote:

> I'm curious how other online operations are handling freelance or
> stringer material originally purchased for use in the print product.
> 
> Are you paying extra for online use of such stories, or are you paying a
> flat rate for both print and online use? How have you notified
> freelancers and stringers of your payment policy - in a standard,
> written way, or merely in individual conversations between outside
> writers and assigning editors?
> 
> I'm not curious so much about how you handle big, one-time freelance
> material, such as major pieces for a Sunday magazine. I'm more
> interested in how people handle day-in, day-out sort of stuff, like
> travel-section pieces, stories from regional stringers who cover the
> edges of circulation areas or stories from stringers who cover suburbs,
> prep sports and the like.
> 
> I'd appreciate any comments, anecdotes, etc., about this matter but
> would especially like copies of any payment policies and terms you
> distribute to freelancers and stringers. Feel free to respond privately
> to tengdahl@denverpost.com.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> TODD ENGDAHL, New Media Editor
> The Denver Post, 1560 Broadway, Denver, Colorado, 80202
> tengdahl@denverpost.com - (303) 820-1650 - FAX (303) 820-1369
> The Denver Post Online - www.denverpost.com
> 

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