Rights
A kind of right that means you commit your work to a single publisher.
What is an exclusive right?
A freelance specialty.
What is a niche?
The first few pages of a magazine with smaller pieces and graphics meant to ease a reader in before the long features.
What is front of book?
Income that takes minimal effort to earn.
What is passive income?
A fee for a completed article that was assigned and then cancelled.
What is a kill fee?
A kind of publishing right that allows you to sell your story to other publishers after you sell to one.
What is a non-exclusive right?
This part of a query letter piques the editor's interest and is usually in the first paragraph.
What is a hook?
A feature presented as a companion to a straight news report, giving sidelights on human-interest aspects or sometimes elucidating just one aspect of a story.
What is a sidebar?
A popular newsletter platform that has gained much popularity in recent years, home to such writers as Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi.
What is Substack?
The Canadian term for "fair use," a provision of copyright law that says short passages from copyrighted material may be used without infringing on the owner's rights.
Secondary or subsidiary rights dealing with electronic/multimedia formats (Internet, for example).
What are electronic rights?
Sending the same article, story or poem to several publishers at the same time.
What are simultaneous submissions?
The middle of a magazine
What is the well?
This kind of freelance payment rate is most common in business, public relations and editing.
What is hourly?
A kind of right that allows you to withdraw your byline if you feel a publisher has altered your story in an unethical way.
What are moral rights?
The right for a newspaper or magazine to publish sections of a manuscript.
What are serial rights?
The time between the acquisition of a manuscript by an editor and its actual publication.
What is lead time?
An article that offers readers advice on how to improve their lives in some way.
What is a service piece?
Ongoing payments for reuse or rebroadcast of a journalist's work.
What are residuals?
Insurance coverage for such risks as copyright infringement, defamation and invasion of privacy.
What is media liability insurance?
If a magazine owning first North American rights to your work wishes to reuse the work, it must pay you this.
What is a reprint fee?
A derogatory term for an online company that produces or sells mass amounts of content. Upworthy would be an example.
What is a content mill?
A document prepared by a publication to showcase the media space available for sale to advertisers. It includes information about the size and demographics of the magazine's readership and the kind of content featured in the magazine.
What is a media kit?
What is affiliate marketing?
A contract clause in which the writer agrees to assume legal risk for the work produced.
What is an indemnification clause?