As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place

Posted Monday, October 19, 2020 12:23 pm

Davey Alba and Jack Nicas | New York Times

The instructions were clear: Write an article calling out Sara Gideon, a Democrat running for a hotly contested U.S. Senate seat in Maine, as a hypocrite.

Angela Underwood, a freelance reporter in upstate New York, took the $22 assignment over email.

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