Hi, we reach 13 million readers but we can’t afford to pay you freelance types for your work. Can we have 1,200 words for free?
Meanwhile, Marco Arment’s The Magazine has just 25,000 subscribers who pay $1.99 a month, allowing him to pay writers $800 per article.
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The second this-makes-the-Atlantic-look-really-bad thing to happen this year.
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well, this is discouraging.
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He said, ‘If you can Dennis, I don’t want to do war, I don’t want to do war.’ He said that to me.Dennis Rodman, playing diplomat between North Korea and the United States on ABC’s “This Week.” The Worm suggested that common ground could be met on the basketball court. ”He loves basketball,” Rodman said, referring to Kim Jong-un. “I said, ‘Obama loves basketball.’ Lets start there.” (via shortformblog)
- 1,700 the number of nuclear arms that the U.S. currently has deployed. The president, in his upcoming State of the Union address, is expected to call for a cut in this number to as low as 1,000. Last night’s test of a nuclear weapon by North Korea makes the timing on this a little more sensitive than it was a couple of days ago. source