October 06, 2010
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Daily Caller halved freelance rates
Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson just told my colleague, Ben Smith, in some rather colorful language that he took issue with Smith’s use of the word “struggling” to describe the news website.
Smith was using it as a verb, not the more pejorative adjective, in a post about the Caller’s efforts to find a place in the media ecosystem and its clashes with the National Review.
But POLITICO has come across some evidence that the Caller is “struggling” in other ways, too.
Last month, the Caller informed its freelancers that it had essentially cut its minimum freelance rates in half, from $200 to $100 plus a bonus for web traffic.
See the old freelance agreement, and the new one.
We’ve reached out to Carlson for comment.
