How does Important Media compensate its editorial team?
Over the last three years (under the Green Options Media brand), we have gone through many iterations in the effort to meet the financial needs of writers while maintaining a viable business, and we have direct experience with the pros and cons of almost every payment system out there. This summer, Important Media is embarking on an entirely revshare-based payment system for all writers and editors. We think this will help to align the interests of everyone involved as direct financial stakeholders, in a way that hasn’t been seen before in many online media outlets. You can read about the general system on our Write page, or specifics for freelance Authors and site Editors. We think it’s important that content creators understand the limitations of an advertising-based model (e.g. how the dollars flow from advertisers to content producers), because this helps everyone realize how much work remains. For some extra background reading on the reasoning behind performance-based pay-scales i
