Screen Rant Reviews

Pros

-the people are awesome -limitless opportunities -fun subjects -flexibility

Cons

-no set hours means time management can be challenging -base pay is very low -the expectations for writers is high compared to more casual sites (faster turnaround, quotas, etc.) I see a lot of former writers complaining on here. The truth is: SR kind of has a low bar. Management likes to give people a chance. Unfortunately, a lot of the writers don't last b/c they just can't develop the skills fast enough to make up for their lack of professional experience. As an editor, I often get treated like a secretary from brand new hires. Ego like that makes it hard to learn, and people who can't learn won't succeed. No online entertainment site is going to hire some fresh college grad, pay them $200 to write about Star Wars, and promote the heck out of it on social. That's a fantasy. SR will at least let you write about Star Wars, and it may get put on social -- and if it's a hit, the bonuses are pretty sweet. Is SR a bit exploitative? Definitely. But that's also the industry.

Pros

Remote Great way to get clips

Cons

Pay per article is awful. You get $10 for completing an average article which is a joke considering the amount of work you put into it. You are competing with other freelance writers for crap pay.

Pros

Enthusiasm, communicative support and editors, experience in the industry, work from home job.

Cons

Editors rewriting work to appear more inflammatory, pressure to create "clickbait" articles, frequent format changes, pay is dependent on view count (which changes depending on when editors decide to publish certain work), senior editors get pitches before junior editors, an emphasis on negative journalism, pressure to lie to the reader and make them angry, focus on including negative keywords in headlines.

Pros

Good experience and the writing process itself is fun.

Cons

Extremely low pay, difficult to develop strong working relationships, expected to do far too much for how low the pay is (multimedia and image editing as well as writing articles), no opportunities for career progression.

Pros

PTO, opportunities for advancement, communicative team, a crazy amount of content to write, great feedback from editors, positive work/life balance environment

Cons

Terribly low pay. Like $10 for 2-3 hours of work.

Pros

- Get to write about topics you want, as long as they make it through a bureaucratic pitching process. - Get your writing published pretty easily.

Cons

-Pay is insanely low ($10 per article) well below minimum wage for the amount of work you'll do. -The editors have an insane amount of control over the "writing" process -You'll spend more time editing your article to fit into the Screen Rant template than you will actually writing