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| rainbow | 11 Jul 2014, 05:30 PM Post #1 |
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Everything I heard from Nike was filtered either through my agency or through the magazine or both. A subsequent email from my agent explained that the editor had "budgeted incorrectly" and "reworked his figures" so that my fee for the piece would be a little less than they had first offered, but that "of course they would pay for flights/hotels etc." and were confident of being able to make the dates work out. Did I still want to do it?nike free canada price I don't remember exactly when I realized that Nike was paying for my flights and hotels, but shortly before I flew to Barcelona I spoke to the editor himself, to discuss the shape of the piece. He mentioned that Nike was also paying a part of my fee—which was supposed to reflect the time investment required of me. His magazine was new and couldn't afford to fly a writer out for a whole weekend.nike free canada sale I had never seen a copy of this magazine, but in his first email to me, the editor described some of their previous issues, which contained a feature by Martin Amis and an interview with David Remnick by Nicholson Baker. The editor himself had written something about Nike's CEO. He explained to me the way his relationship with Nike had worked on that occasion. Basically, he wrote what he wanted to, but Nike had asked him to rephrase one of his descriptions of the CEO. It was a question of finessing.new balance 574 canada The editor sent my rewrite on to Nike. Or rather, to the Nike publicist who had been my contact in Barcelona.She was "furious—to say the least," the editor wrote back in an email. The piece seemed to her relentlessly negative and cynical. There was nothing an edit could do; it needed to be rewritten. "Nike would also probably tale legal action if this was published as is." She could lose her job.new balance 996 canada There was a lot more back and forth about this. The editor offered to bring in another guy to reshape the piece, which would then be published under both our names. The more I heard from Nike the less I wanted to publish anything that would flatter them, so I refused. I told him he needed to stand up to Nike. This put him in a tough position. Nike, it turned out, had agreed to pay not only the whole of my fee, but the cameraman's fee, and the documentary maker's fee as well. They were refusing to foot the bill for what I had written, and the magazine, which was very small, couldn't afford to—even my kill fee would probably have to get paid on installment.new balance 990 women |
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