How much money can a journalist make writing for Talking Points Memo?
The Politico has an article detailing the grueling workload, high turnover rate, and content focus for the Polk award-winning blog Talking Points Memo. It also tells us how much the site is able to pay its 11 writers.
Most of TPM’s reporter-bloggers make between $24,000 and $40,000, according to sources, and those who survive at TPM clearly earn their keep. While describing TPM’s rapid pace, Marshall used words like “intense,” “scrambling,” and the in-house favorite, “full immersion.”
Not exactly Politico’s starting salary (which is reportedly very high) but well within the range of what you’d be paid starting out at most daily and weekly newspapers.
WOW!!!! that’s some info.
Read the Politico article. They did prove that hardwork and the capacity to withstand the workload does pay.