[MediaMole]

This is going on all over. It really puts the screws to freelancers, since they are small businessmen, not employees.

$250/day sounds great at first -- wow -- $65,000 a year. That $250/day is subject to self-employment tax AND you get no benefits. Add in health insurance costs, the $25,000 in equipment (figure $5000 per year as an ongoing equipment expense), the reality that that $250/day isn't a guarantee and you are living on $20,000 per year.

Then, they take away your ability to make any additional money from future sales...

[Criminal Number 18F]

And that's ($250) on OVERSEAS assignment. In the New York area it's $100 or $150 a day (the number's in the article).

And a lot of the overseas assignments can get a photographer killed. Reporters can (and do) sit in hotel bars and make up their stories. Photographers find it harder (although I could site some examples...)

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F