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Front-Ranger:
I was paying $4 a month a year ago but I noticed my subscription going up, until it was $22 a month! I went to the online subscription management area and tried to unsubscribe. They asked why and I said I couldn't afford $22/month. This was in a chat box. They asked me if I'd continue at $4/month and I said sure. Hope it works for you too!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 09, 2023, 04:36:46 pm ---By "staff," do you mean people like the fact-checkers (assuming they still have them) and Gottlieb, and so forth, as opposed to the writers?
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No, I meant writers, too -- people who get a regular paycheck and a w2, as opposed to freelancers (who get a 1099 instead of a w2, FWIW). So you know in the little bios on the page after the ToC, some say so-and-so is a staff writer, or has been a staff writer since 2008 or whatever, and then others just identify the person as a playwright or novelist or name their most recent book and so on. In my most recent edition I count six of each. Or should I say six of one and half a dozen of the other. :laugh:
You can bet TNY has fact checkers, as many magazines do but perhaps fewer now than in the past. Newspapers, to my knowledge, have never had fact checkers. They have editors and copy editors, which are different. Editors change stories in ways they think will make them read better. They also ostensibly look for unanswered questions or other areas where the stories could use more information, or cut parts they think are unnecessary or will keep them from fitting a particular spot on the page. And to some extent, they do fact checking. But copy editors do more granular fact checking -- they'll make sure names, addresses and things like that are correct and, in digital copy, check links to make sure they go to where they're supposed to. They kind of share headline writing. Reporters suggest headlines but someone else makes the call.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: southendmd on March 09, 2023, 05:01:16 pm ---Do tell! Or did I miss it?
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--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 09, 2023, 07:32:09 pm ---I was paying $4 a month a year ago but I noticed my subscription going up, until it was $22 a month! I went to the online subscription management area and tried to unsubscribe. They asked why and I said I couldn't afford $22/month. This was in a chat box. They asked me if I'd continue at $4/month and I said sure. Hope it works for you too!
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After Lee mentioned this, I called their subscription department. At first they offered something that was cheaper than what I was paying but not as cheap. I said, "My friend said she's only paying $1 a week." So then they offered that. Apparently the higher rate was for "all access," meaning recipes, games, etc., that I could easily live without, so I took the $1 deal. But lately I've noticed ads saying "all access" is now only 25 cents more, or $1.25/wk. That's for six months, after which I'm sure the price will shoot up again.
nytimes.com/subscription/all-access?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 09, 2023, 07:36:24 pm ---No, I meant writers, too -- people who get a regular paycheck and a w2, as opposed to freelancers (who get a 1099 instead of a w2, FWIW). So you know in the little bios on the page after the ToC, some say so-and-so is a staff writer, or has been a staff writer since 2008 or whatever, and then others just identify the person as a playwright or novelist or name their most recent book and so on. In my most recent edition I count six of each. Or should I say six of one and half a dozen of the other. :laugh:
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Maybe TNY has its own idiosyncratic definition of staff writer. In the little bio section I've seen Jill Lepore identified as a staff writer--I know I saw it because it so surprised me, because of what I would understand a staff writer to be. I would think of a staff writer as a person who gets a regular paycheck and a w2--like a newspaper reporter, maybe--but Jill Lepore holds an endowed chair at Harvard. Yet she's considered a staff writer.
--- Quote ---You can bet TNY has fact checkers, as many magazines do but perhaps fewer now than in the past. Newspapers, to my knowledge, have never had fact checkers. They have editors and copy editors, which are different. Editors change stories in ways they think will make them read better. They also ostensibly look for unanswered questions or other areas where the stories could use more information, or cut parts they think are unnecessary or will keep them from fitting a particular spot on the page. And to some extent, they do fact checking. But copy editors do more granular fact checking -- they'll make sure names, addresses and things like that are correct and, in digital copy, check links to make sure they go to where they're supposed to. They kind of share headline writing. Reporters suggest headlines but someone else makes the call.
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I've been an editor and a copy editor in old-fashioned print media.
Front-Ranger:
I just noticed something on the back cover of the Feb. 27th issue. Apparently you can watch five of the Oscar shorts at newyorker.com/video! I've seen "Night Ride" which is nominated for Best Live Action Short Film. It's very good and humorous too. I'm not familiar with The New Yorker Studios but want to learn more!
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