- Hundreds of Vox Media freelancers will lose their jobs in the coming months.
- Vox Media is preparing for a California law, Assembly Bill 5, which goes into effect in 2020 and forbids nonemployees from submitting more than 35 articles per year.
- SB Nation said Monday that it will move its California team blogs, which rely on contractors, to a new system run by SB Nation employees. STORY @ CNBC.
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…ntribute to society.
It’ll be hard to run a daily cat blog on 35 articles per year.
Brought to you by Democrats, a party to which vast numbers of journalists belong. Sorry, not sorry.
I’m no expert on the Gig Economy, but it sounds like there wuz just too much winning going on there that had to be curbed by California’s Misery Merchants… democRATz!
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”–Mencken
^^^ I thought that wuz a Ron Jeremy quote…
Screw em. I wonder what they think of California (All Democrat, All the Time) now. Just be careful of them when they move out of Cali that they don’t bring their politics with them even on the sly.
Seeing paybacks for stupid, evil slimeballs
is such a pleasure.
The left: people who improve your job by making it go away.