Ex-HuffPo Recruiter: 'The Number Of People Willing To Write For Free Is Vast'
Via Romenesko: Francis Wilkinson, writing in The Week, tackles the question of whether writing as a profession is becoming elitist. He used to recruit writers for Huffington Post, and found that it wasn’t that tough to get people to write for free:
I calculated that I would need 75 unpaid blog submissions per day, Monday through Friday, in order to make the site work. That target seemed absurd at first. Yet within two months, hundreds of willing bloggers had signed up, the majority of them credentialed authors published by major publishing houses.
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