Writing Content you Aren’t Passionate About Pays

More importantly, it improves your craft and raises your profile

Joshua Collins
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readAug 9, 2019

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I’m a freelance journalist who writes on Venezuela. When I break down the amount of money I earn hourly for each article after expenses and time spent in the field, the sum comes out to a figure substantially below the minimum wage in most countries (though not Venezuela

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A reporter on immigration and world affairs, based in Cucuta, Colombia. Bylines at Al Jazeera, Caracas Chronicles, New Humanitarian and more