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Topic: philly mag payment problems?
| Author | Message |
| joyeuxnoelle | Posted – 5/7/2008 5:20:24 PM | show profile | email poster I'm starting to worry I'm getting stiffed. Has anyone had trouble getting payment from these people? |
| RockinRonD | Posted – 5/7/2008 5:36:25 PM | show profile | email poster You're being prettty unclear as to what specific magazine you're referring to. |
| fake.it.til.you.make.it | Posted – 5/7/2008 8:36:44 PM | show profile Have you followed up with the editor yet about getting paid? What did he/she say?? |
| joyeuxnoelle | Posted – 5/8/2008 2:01:27 PM | show profile fake it Yes, I followed up with the editor. No response. |
| joyeuxnoelle | Posted – 5/8/2008 2:05:19 PM | show profile clarification I just want to add that I followed up with the editor after submitting my piece and he was pleased with it. He also confirmed that my invoice was received. Around the 45 day mark, I sent a polite reminder to the editor - no response. |
| fake.it.til.you.make.it | Posted – 5/8/2008 3:01:40 PM | show profile Hmm, maybe try calling the editor? The reason for his lack of response could be he's busy or maybe he's no longer there. Not receiving payment, however, could be an accounting issue--like maybe it slipped through the cracks or something. If you can't get a hold of the editor by phone, I'd try contacting the account dept. next directly by phone. Then mention you submitted an invoice on X date, contract states you get paid upon publication (or whatever it is), and are wondering what the status is. Hopefully that will get you an answer and a check, and you won't have to push any further... |
| RockinRonD | Posted – 5/8/2008 3:30:58 PM | show profile | email poster Become a Nudge Call Accounts Payable at the magazine nonstop until you get someone on the phone who can track and verify your overdue invoice and tell you with some certainly exactly when the check will be cut and mailed. |
| mimi77 | Posted – 5/8/2008 7:49:11 PM | show profile i work at one of the big new york publishers and we don't cut checks until 45 days after invoice is dated. i would hold tight a couple more weeks. this is pretty common. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 5/8/2008 8:47:31 PM | show profile the editor you work with may have been all high and shit with the ASME nomination (high-ups in AMSE make certain that magaizne always gets at least one nomination, though it rarely wins other than Leisure Interests, one big win in Reporting 110 years ago but that's cause best bud was an ASME judge and this reporter had done other rocking works); and is now despondent over having lost to, what was it? Mother Jones? So give it a week or two. I would start with accounts payable, and then perhaps call the assistant to the editor and ask, "how do I go about looking into this without getting any one in trouble?" as an assistant myself, I was often asked to bump things along inauspiciously, and was happy to do so. |
| getmeoutofhere | Posted – 5/8/2008 9:45:34 PM | show profile thought i would throw in my own experience i had a few things published in a NYC magazine that employs many, many freelancers on Jan. 28...And still haven't been paid. Even given their rule of not paying until 4-8 weeks after pub date, my check is still at least six weeks overdue. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 5/8/2008 9:49:37 PM | show profile true. I got paid two years after a story ran. Usually you get the check after the story is on the newsstands, sometimes months afterward. But there are people who refuse to wait this long and call to bug the editors--though these are people who are usually labelled by said editors as "difficult" and "demanding". Sucks. There was a Columbia Journalism Review story that ran about this--and the liberties women's magazine editors take with stories, back in 2002, I think. Chandra Czape (of Ed2010) and laurie Abraham (of Elle) among others, were quoted. |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 5/9/2008 12:40:49 PM | show profile That is absurd viewpoint. It is not "bugging" the editor to demand that you receive the payment you are owed for work you did. --true. I got paid two years after a story ran. Usually you get the check after the story is on the newsstands, sometimes months afterward. But there are people who refuse to wait this long and call to bug the editors--though these are people who are usually labelled by said editors as "difficult" and "demanding". Sucks.-- |
| seeattleme | Posted – 5/9/2008 12:56:12 PM | show profile There are editors (and people in general) who behave absurdly. If this were not a common behavior, it would not keep popping up as a posted problem and it would be written about in CJR. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 5/9/2008 1:12:10 PM | show profile I meant it would NOT be written about in CJR if it were not a problem. |
