http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/ NSNC Discussions Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:24:54 GMT Walter M. Brasch. Ph.D. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1022 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1022 I;ve been following this thread today. I;m confused. You mean that columnists are supposed to be paid? That could change everything. Actually, I tend to be a Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:41:30 GMT Caroline B. Poser, Author and Columnist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1021 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1021 This isn't exactly my situation - what happens is that the paper just doesn't publish me, randomly. The last column I submitted, upon the editor's request, was Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:33:37 GMT Mike Deupree http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1020 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1020 Debby, Everybody's different, but in my case I ruined more funny ones by tweaking them too much than by doing it too little. As to the other point, in my Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:08:07 GMT Elizabeth Laden http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1019 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1019 Bill is right. Our main problem is that we need local writers on local topics. Otherwise we would do a nationwide search. Elizabeth Laden Publisher & Editor Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:29:38 GMT George Waters http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1018 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1018 I subscribe to Gene Weingarten¹s column, and this week he summed up the newspaper writer/pay topic with his usual sharp wit: http://tinyurl.com/424bpn If that Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:01:47 GMT Jennifer C. Grant http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1017 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1017 To answer the question on payment for local columns, I've written columns for papers in the Sun-Times newsgroup for nearly 10 years. ("The Sun" papers are Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:51:03 GMT imetwas206 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1016 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1016 ... write ... November ... had to sign. . . . Anne . . . anne@... Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:44:56 GMT imetwas206 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1015 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1015 ... started ... message ... later ... When I lost my last (paid column) weekly newspaper, I began sending the same column free each week to a still growing Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:42:30 GMT Bykofsky, Stu http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1014 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1014 Is Elizabeth hiring? Stu Byko ________________________________ From: nsncdiscussions@yahoogroups.com [mailto:nsncdiscussions@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bill Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:40:10 GMT Bill Tammeus http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1013 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1013 As usual, Lindor asks exactly the right question.   If columnists write unprofessionally, they shouldn't be columnists. It's not that editors can't or Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:34:28 GMT Reynolds, Lindor http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1012 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1012 Why are you still using them? Lindor Reynolds Columnist Winnipeg Free Press 204 697 7272 From: nsncdiscussions@yahoogroups.com Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:12:19 GMT kindanerdy@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1011 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1011 That is a shame. There are a lot of quality columnists out there. If you pay well, I imagine that you would be able to find a good writer who cares enough to Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:44:37 GMT Mike Deupree http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1010 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1010 Interesting development at the Cedar Rapids Gazette.....the new editor announced last week that the paper was dropping the AP. He cited cost. I would add the Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:09:56 GMT Elizabeth Laden http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1009 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1009 Hello, We pay our columnists but I am often frustrated by how much editing I have to do and I'm considering docking the pay if I have to do a big rewrite. It Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:56:08 GMT kindanerdy@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1008 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsncdiscussions/message/1008 I've written an every-other-week 400-500-word humor column for four years. Starting pay was $35 per column. And I haven't gotten a raise. But my column is