An interesting theory: We’re entering an age where top-tier journalists are finally going to get paid what they’re worth by branching off and doing their own thing (like Bill Bishop)

How to monetize the same content 5x as a Digital Writer:

• Write a paid newsletter ($)

• Publish snippets behind Medium's paywall ($$)

• Group newsletters by topic & publish as a book on Amazon ($$$)

• Turn all this content into a course ($$$$)

• Advise people 1:1 ($$$$$)

“I think writers have always realized their own value; there just weren't a lot of options in the post-2008 recession for how to make good on it,” says Anne Helen Peterson, who writes the newsletter Culture Study. “But all of this feels very cyclical to me. The economy tanks, writers get laid off from their publications, writers go freelance,... See more