The Awl is Going to Start Paying Writers...Money

Yes, we all missed our chance to suck up to Choire Sicha and Alex Balk. We could have worked for free all these years and look where we’d be now. Damn.

Seriously, this is some of the best news we’ve seen all year. The Great Recession doesn’t even come close to describing the slaughter fest journalists have endured in the last three years. We keep on searching for signs that it’s getting better. And while this is not exactly the LAT hiring hundreds of people, The Awl paying people shows that someone can start something and pay people eventually.

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