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Freelance journalists share their financial challenges and potential solutions
It’s not easy making a living as a freelance journalist. That’s long been the case, especially now with newsrooms halting freelance contributions (if not shutting down entirely) at the same time as more of us are entering the field. Plus, as I’ve noted before, one 2022 survey found that most independent writers’ freelance income was…
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Should freelance journalists get an LLC? A Q&A with financial expert Chase Spenst
As a full-time freelance journalist for a little over two years now, I’m used to checking the “individual/sole proprietor” box on W-9 forms when signing contracts with new publications. I’ve put off looking into the other options — with alphabet-soup names like C-corp, S-corp and LLC — in part because, like many of you, I fell…
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