28 March 2016
A concerted campaign against writers being asked to work without payment is gathering pace on a number of fronts. We take the temperature of the current debate.
Two years ago in ALCS News, we ran a feature entitled The Price Ain't Right by freelance journalist and publishing analyst Danuta Kean, in which she cited numerous examples of professional writers being asked to work without payment. She concluded: "There is a danger that movements against the devaluation of our labour become little more than moaning clubs in which we berate the situation without challenging it at its roots."