California lawmakers are reconsidering a controversial provision to a newly implemented state law which limits freelance journalists to 35 articles per-year in the same publication before they must be considered full- or part-time employees, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez announced earlier this month. Evidently the result of concerns raised by freelance journalists and at least two professional associations that represent them, Gonzalez—who introduced the law, AB 5, last year—announced on February 6 that state lawmakers have reconsidered the 35-submission limit and sought to remove the provision through AB 1850, a follow up bill to AB 5 which clarifies the types of employees that can be considered independent contractors. The change, if implemented, would apparently exempt all freelance writers from the law, not just those who contribute 35 articles or less to the same publication in the same year. "Based on dozens of meetings with freelance journalists and photographers, we have submitted language to legislative counsel that we hope to have available next week to put into AB 1850 which will cut out the 35 submission cap and instead more clearly define freelancer journalism," Gonzalez said. On December 16, John Ness, executive director of Vox Media's SB Nation announced that the site was replacing over 200 California-based freelance contributors with a new team of full-time employees dedicated to covering the state's sports teams. Although noting that this shift was one... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
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