‘Silent rejection’ will wreck freelance system

I read with great interest Mark Fisher’s letter (May/June 2008) on the modern culture of editors ignoring freelancers’ copy/ideas through “silent rejection”.

It is vital that, if a publication doesn’t want a contribution, then the journalist is able to pitch it elsewhere to make a living, or the nature of the freelance system begins to break down.

Good features, and in some cases investigative journalism, are being lost forever — creating a very worrying culture in a digitally dominated and online age.

Gary Moore

Yeovil, Somerset

 

 

 

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