‘It definitely limits our options’: Under AB 5, publishers and freelancers are seeing costs rise

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Digiday / Max Willens / Jan 21

“While none of the publishers contacted for this story have said they are cutting back on coverage of California-specific issues, AB 5 has created a few job listings that have raised some eyebrows. For example, job seekers dragged The New York Times on Twitter after discovering that the news publisher was looking for a freelancer to write a column about California real estate listings but not considering residents of California.”

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Tags: AB 5, California, freelancing