Print media / Regional newspapers
Rates paid by regional, and particularly provincial and local, newspapers vary hugely. These suggestions are based on the decent rates that members have achieved.
The suggested rates
Read me first! Print media / Regional newspapers: advice
See also: notes on negotiating rates for this work
See also: reported rates, to compare: Print media / Regional newspapers
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Please note that the suggested rates below are minima; that rates for copyright works are for limited licences; and that VAT is not included.
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RATES: Shifts Regional newspapers category: Regional daily newspapers |
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| 6 or 7 hour sub-editing shifts (weekend) |  |
160.00 |
| 6 or 7 hour sub-editing shifts | |
130.00 |
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RATES: Shifts Regional newspapers category: Weekly/local newspapers |
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Sub-editing shifts are one kind of work where many - but not all - local papers pay noticeable rates. |
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| 6 or 7 hour sub-editing shifts | |
120.00 |
Notes:
- Freelances paid a day rate risk being taxed at source and paying National Insurance as an employed person, though this can be challenged - see Shift payments - tax and time off.
- Writing on a day rate may have implications for copyright. See Rights and why they are important - and NUJ members can check with the Freelance Office.
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RATES: Writing, reporting and researching Regional newspapers category: Regional daily newspapers |
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| Ordered story or feature, bigger papers, per 1000 | |
170.00 |
| Ordered story or feature, per 1000 | |
130.00 |
| Page lead | |
70.00 |
| Tip | |
30.00 |
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RATES: Writing, reporting and researching Regional newspapers category: Weekly/local newspapers |
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| Ordered news or feature, per 1000 | |
120.00 |
Notes:
- Some regional and provincial newspapers pay such low rates that the NUJ cannot actually recommend that such work is undertaken, unless the writer needs to make a name for him/herself locally.
- We would particularly like to name and shame the Barnsley Chronicle (apparently independent); the Chichester Observer and other Johnston Press papers in England; and the Birmingham Post and other Trinity Mirror regionals.
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The National Union of Journalists must not, can not and would not wish to dictate rates or terms of engagement to members or to editors. The information presented here is for guidance and as an aid to equitable negotiation only.
Suggestions apply to contracts governed by UK law only. In any event, nothing here should be construed as legal advice.
