National Union of Journalists: for sub-editors

logo This page gathers together links to resources specifically useful to sub-editors. If you find something that ought to be linked from here, propose it to the editor.

We have divided the links into Contacts, Networks, Rates & terms and Advice.

Contacts

NUJ Freelance Directory

Who to contact for advice and assistance to NUJ members

Joining the NUJ and getting a press card

Sub-Editors link up with the NUJ for alerts on clients, etc

Online networks

UkSubs mailing list - open to NUJ members and non-members

QualityStreet - for the papers formerly known as broadsheets

Rates & terms

Freelance Fees Guide

Sub-editing - all sectors

PR other editing & production

Online other editing & production

The Rate for the Job: rates paid - good, indifferent and ^%&*$!

Magazines

News national papers

Regional/local papers

Online

Public Relations

Other

Submit a Rate for the Job - help other sub-editors

Attention! members contact the office before working for these

The Trireme worst terms since I was last chained to the oars...

What subs want! discussion on how to get it...

Advice

Paid time off ("holiday pay") etc

Most who work shifts are entitled under European Union law to paid time off, in addition to the fee for the time they work. These articles set out the details.

Your rights as a worker

Insisting on holiday pay - and carrying on getting work

Shift payments - tax and time off from the Fees Guide

Employment status and tax etc

How can you tell when you count as employed for tax, or other, purposes? Is it better to insist on being paid gross, and how do you go about that? How can you lose out if you let PAYE deductions serve as a "piggy bank" for tax? The articles linked below - all from the Fees Guide - give general advice, roughly in order of increasing nit-pickingness.

Shift payments - tax and time off

Tax and National Insurance

VAT Value Added Tax - should you register & if so how?

Employment Status

Setting up a company or not...

Late and problem payments

You can do quite a lot yourself to encourage clients to pay up on time. Invoicing them for interest and compensation often wakes the accounts department from its evasive doze. The links below explain how - and, for NUJ members, how to get the union to help if they're really recalictrant.

Late payers, your time is up rules from 07/08/2002

The Gong - "awards" for late payers

Interest & penalty calculator - billing clients who pay late

Collect-o-Matic - claiming when they're really recalcitrant

Late and problem payments from the Fees Guide