For example if I go to the state high school track meet to cover a certain group of athletes for newspaper A. Can I also write articles for newspaper B about the same group of athletes? Do the stories have to be different? Do the quotes need to be different?
2007-06-08 15:29:36 · 3 answers · asked by Francis K 1 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Essentially, this depends on what you negotiate with the papers you write for. Some papers want their freelance writers to write for them exclusively - which means you should demand they pay you a bit more.
Others allow you to cover the same event for other papers if the areas in which these papers are published don't overlap.
And finally there are papers who don't mind if you are writing for thir direct competitors as long as you write a different text with different quotes. Whatever you do, make sure you agree on these issues with your editor beforehand.
2007-06-10 06:30:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a retired publisher of my own community newspaper (and one who was involved in the start-up of USA TODAY) I can tell you: freelancers are often the best means of 'getting the story'. One of my best freelance writers was a man who would travel to a far-off destination, then write an article for about two dozen different newspapers. Each article was just a little bit different, but basically the same. Usually, photos he included were different. And he got paid two dozen times for writing pretty much one story. -RKO- 06/08/07
2007-06-08 16:24:18 · answer #2 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The stories and the quotes must be different, but you can cover the same event for multiple publications.
2007-06-09 08:54:29 · answer #3 · answered by MyThought 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋