What We Can Learn From UWIRE's End: Get It In Writing

The UWIRE story gets more and more ugly: we heard from a reader, Juana Summers, who linked us to her blog post about her experience working for UWIRE.

She began working for the company in August 2009. When she got the mysterious e-mail on Oct. 4, saying the site was being temporarily suspended, “I…was also expecting my first paycheck.”

So this student (and many others) put in more than a month of work that never got paid for, and probably won’t:

“Another student editor emailed our former employer and asked questions about compensation.