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When Glynnis MacNicol was blogging for the Huffington Post, there were no promises about future payments, she says. “The understanding was Arianna provided the platform, I provided the content, and the hope was (on my part anyway) that at some point the combination of the two would land me a paying gig, or up my profile.” || More takes on Jonathan Tasini‘s class action lawsuit:
Jeff Bercovici does the math:
If the $105 million class action suit against the Huffington Post filed Tuesday succeeds in full, each one of the site’s 9,000 bloggers can expect a check for $11,666, courtesy of AOL and Arianna Huffington. But, bloggers, don’t go spending your share of the award just yet. For the plaintiffs to triumph, they’ll first have to clear a couple of high hurdles,
Dylan Stableford writes:
There was plenty of opportunities in the five-plus years of the Huffington Post’s existence — which is also how long Tasini has been blogging for HuffPo — for him to raise this issue on behalf of a group of bloggers or, more effectively, himself. But the biggest problem with the Tasini’s argument comes down to how loosely one defines a “journalist” compared to a “blogger.”
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