Unlike a Rolling Stone

[TheSportsPredictor]

Penske Media Group found a bunch of money to jazz up Rolling Stone.

No word on how many fake rape stories or terrorists on the cover will be included.

Welcome to the New Rolling Stone – Rolling Stone

 

[typefitter]

Was talking to someone yesterday who recently got $600 to write a feature for them. Even the kid from Almost Famous would have turned that down.

 

[Azrael]

Very on-brand, paying hippie money.

Still, for the sake of everyone involved, I hope they can keep the magazine alive.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Was talking to someone yesterday who recently got $600 to write a feature for them. Even the kid from Almost Famous would have turned that down.

Here's what you do to get the price up. Tell him it's a think piece about a mid level band struggling with their own limitations in the harsh face of stardom.

 

[bpoindexter]

Here's what you do to get the price up. Tell him it's a think piece about a mid level band struggling with their own limitations in the harsh face of stardom.

I like it, I like it.

 

[SnarkShark]

Was talking to someone yesterday who recently got $600 to write a feature for them. Even the kid from Almost Famous would have turned that down.

For how many words?

 

[cjericho]

F Rolling Stone. Cream should come back and just write about rock and roll.

 

[Alma]

Hard to write about music any more. Lotta free web sites out there.

 

[Batman]

Hard to write about music any more. Lotta free web sites out there.

Writing about music is easy. Just pick a couple dozen obscure artists that three people outside of their immediate families have ever heard of, and call it "The 25 Most Important Bands of 2018," and you've got yourself a winner.

 

[Alma]

Writing about music is easy. Just pick a couple dozen obscure artists that three people outside of their immediate families have ever heard of, and call it "The 25 Most Important Bands of 2018," and you've got yourself a winner.

Nah. That was true maybe 10/15 years ago. Now the most important artists - according to these sites of which you speak - are all pretty big superstars. Mostly in rap/hip-hop.

 

[Vombatus]

Writing about music is easy. Just pick a couple dozen obscure artists that three people outside of their immediate families have ever heard of, and call it "The 25 Most Important Bands of 2018," and you've got yourself a winner.

Then turn it into slideshow clickbait and list 33 bands.

 

[Vombatus]

A story about amplifiers should pay well.

 

[typefitter]

For how many words?

Not sure, but it was a full feature, so I'm guessing at least 2,500.

A magazine like Rolling Stone should be paying at least $2 a word to an experienced freelancer.

 

[GBNF]

Not sure, but it was a full feature, so I'm guessing at least 2,500.

A magazine like Rolling Stone should be paying at least $2 a word to an experienced freelancer.

I wrote a 3000+ story for Playboy and got $500, and I'm an experienced freelancer. Are you sure that story is not online-only, which seems to be at a far lesser rate?

 

[JCT89]

Was talking to someone yesterday who recently got $600 to write a feature for them. Even the kid from Almost Famous would have turned that down.

Not sure, but it was a full feature, so I'm guessing at least 2,500.

A magazine like Rolling Stone should be paying at least $2 a word to an experienced freelancer.

I would be interested to know whether it was for the magazine or the website. There are a few places -- not sure Rolling Stone is one anymore -- where I'd consider taking a little less just to be able to cross it off my list and say I had a byline there.

 

[cjericho]

I would be interested to know whether it was for the magazine or the website. There are a few places -- not sure Rolling Stone is one anymore -- where I'd consider taking a little less just to be able to cross it off my list and say I had a byline there.

They don't get to put it in print and on the website?

 

[typefitter]

I wrote a 3000+ story for Playboy and got $500, and I'm an experienced freelancer. Are you sure that story is not online-only, which seems to be at a far lesser rate?

Online does pay a lot less almost everywhere, but he was talking about the fact checking process, which made me think it was for the print version.

 

[CD Boogie]

Music reviews are right up there with whiskey reviews in the pantheon of bull**** writing. And when 90 percent of your feature subjects get final approval rights, you’re just doing PR.

 

[Alma]

Music reviews are right up there with whiskey reviews in the pantheon of bull**** writing. And when 90 percent of your feature subjects get final approval rights, you’re just doing PR.

Correct. There’s some artists who could burp for 10 tracks and still get a favorable review.

 

[YankeeFan]

I wrote a 3000+ story for Playboy and got $500, and I'm an experienced freelancer. Are you sure that story is not online-only, which seems to be at a far lesser rate?

How long -- including any research required -- did that take you?