Mamamia to start paying contributors

July 18, 2013 10:53

Women’s news and lifestyle website Mamamia has announced it will begin paying $50 a post for contributions.

Mia Freedman, the site’s publisher and editor-in-chief explained the change in policy in a post writing:

“From next week we will be paying for original contributions.

“Financially, as a small, independent start-up, we’re not in the same ballpark as big media corporations like News Limited or Yahoo or Fairfax but we want to do our bit to value the work of aspiring writers, amateur bloggers and students who are studying to be journalists.

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Nic Christensen

Nic Christensen worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2016, in roles including deputy editor and media & technology editor. He is former media writer for The Australian and has also worked as a reporter for The Daily Telegraph and senior producer for Radio 2GB.

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4 COMMENTS

Just Sayin... 18 Jul 13

Nice work.

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Mike 20 Jul 13

Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. I say good on her!

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STaylor 20 Jul 13

dude. Pay for the content people create for your site. It’s absolutely disgusting that it took for it to get to the wider media before you started paying.

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Tamar 25 Jul 13

It’s about time. It was December last year that it came out they don’t pay their contributors. Back then Mia Freedman validated by saying they were giving people their lucky break into the market (as though they should have been greatful that they were being taken advantage of).

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