{"id":63566,"date":"2017-06-23T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63566"},"modified":"2017-06-22T21:40:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T02:40:50","slug":"todays-business-model-fifteen-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63566","title":{"rendered":"Todays&#8217; Business Model, Fifteen Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/media-startups-try-a-lower-cost-model-unpaid-student-writers-1498050000\">switching to\u00a0<em>unpaid\u00a0<\/em>student labor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As head editor for the local chapter of an online food-culture publication, Brogan Dearinger spent most mornings last fall coming up with story ideas, editing submissions and checking the performance of articles.<\/p>\n<p>But there was no money in it\u2014at least not for her.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Dearinger, then a senior at Indiana University Bloomington, was among about 8,000 unpaid college students working for local chapters of Spoon University Inc., a for-profit media company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are always pushing us to publish more,\u201d Ms. Dearinger said. \u201cSince writers don\u2019t get paid for their articles, sometimes it\u2019s hard to motivate them to write more articles.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s one way around those $15\/hour minimum wage laws!<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, the model that\u00a0<em>Shot In The Dark\u00a0<\/em>and the NARN have used from Day 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media companies switching to\u00a0unpaid\u00a0student labor. As head editor for the local chapter of an online food-culture publication, Brogan Dearinger spent most mornings last fall coming up with story ideas, editing submissions and checking the performance of articles. But there was no money in it\u2014at least not for her. Ms. Dearinger, then a senior at Indiana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63567,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63566\/revisions\/63567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}