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Between Freelancer and Staffer: Contributing Editors

A contributing editor gig can give you a "legitimate and powerful calling card" as an established writer

By E.B. Boyd – September 3, 2008
Freelance writers often choose the unaffiliated life for the flexibility and freedom. But they inevitably discover that it also comes with a certain degree of nail-biting on the cash flow front. For many, a contributing editor gig at a magazine seems to promise a measure of stability. But does it really? Mediabistro.com talked to writers and editors to get ...
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