Press Play with Madeleine Brand
For TV writers, higher employment but stagnant salaries
The Writers Guild of America is negotiating a new 3-year contract with film and TV producers. There are more than 450 series this season, which is twice as many shows than in 2011. There’s also a surge in the number of TV writers, but their wages have been flat. Stress over money is stirring up talks of a strike.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe Writers Guild of America is negotiating a new 3-year contract with film and TV producers. There are more than 450 series this season, which is twice as many shows than in 2011. There’s also a surge in the number of TV writers, but their wages have been flat. Stress over money is stirring up talks of a strike.
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- 9:02Big mystery: Why more millennials are diagnosed with colon cancer
- 18:21New Yorker writer on losing everything
- 34:20Remembering Chuck Barris, the godfather of the game show