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Contributor Network Shut; Work 'Going Up In Smoke'
- Press Gazette, Thursday, July 3, 2014 4:17 PM
Yahoo is closing its Contributor Network website, resulting in articles by hundreds of writers from over the last two-and-a-half years being deleted from the internet. The Contributor Network, which typically paid at least £15-20 up-front for articles and an extra 70p per 1,000 page views, will close down in mid-August. One affected writer told Press Gazette: “This is the work of hundreds of young writers, thousands of articles, going up in smoke.
