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  • Employers Add ‘a Cheap Place to Live' to List of Staff Perks

    Rupert Jones

    May 07, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: England, London

    For publishing companies located in major metropolises, housing costs can present a significant challenge to successfully recruiting and retaining staff. To address this issue, the Hachette and Penguin Random House publishing groups have created initiatives to provide interns with subsidized housing. Working with the Book Trade Charity—which has traditionally provided subsidized housing for retirees from the publishing industry—these publishing groups have invested in the refurbishment of apartments and are offering them at below market rate to applicants selected for internship programs.

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  • Organizing New Media

    Jason Farbman

    November 17, 2016 |

    Jacobin |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In order to secure workplace protections, liability protection for their writing, and channels of communication with management, writers working for digital media companies have begun to unionize. Unions can provide support for media outlets changing ownership as well as providing a spur for mission-driven media outlets to live up to their mission.

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  • Program lifts aspiring writers from poverty, infuses media with fresh voices

    Judith Matloff

    October 21, 2016 |

    Columbia Journalism Review |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Founded in 2012, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project commissions, edits, and places articles, films, photojournalism and other reportage focused on inequality. EHRP’s articles not only humanize issues of inequality, but also provides a source of income and a means for people living in poverty to tell their stories. The organization also actively collaborates with other publishers to ensure their articles are spread widely.

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