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[Terry Calhoun]

Second that, Barry. Our managing editor has been getting about $16/hr 
for 20 hours a week as a law student, and I know from experience that 
she's been a real bargain.

Likewise, a stipend of $20k/annual for an executive editor is not out of 
line; we use a very senior retired person and he's worth every penny of 
that and more.

Luckily, without printing and mailing costs, you save $$. OTOH, if you 
try to replace maybe $10-15k of copy editing and fact checking with 
volunteers, someone has to administer it and do quality checks.

In any case, significant time from experienced volunteers is also needed 
for strategy and operations.

Then . . . would we want to solicit and fulfill sponsors and/or advertisers?

What about hosting and coding expenses for various functionalities?

- Terry Calhoun




Barry Wellman wrote:
> David Silver suggested our proposed journal be free to all, as JCMC seems
> to be.
>
> But even if online there are costs, which someone has to pay for with
> either bucks or sweat.
>
> I was the initial founder of _City & Community_, and am still on the
> board. Here are some ideas about the costs, from memory, excluding
> printing and postage.
>
> Managing editor (a grad student): $20K/year
>
> Editor (faculty member) teaching reduction -- if you're lucky, donated by
> your university. If you're not, my university would charge about
> $20K/year.
>
> Room -- will the university give it to you for free or charge rent.
>
> Furnishings: ibid
>
> Phone, xerox, etc. Figure $5K year.
>
> So a free journal is at least $25K a year in cost, and maybe twice that.
> Unless you can convince the university to subsidize and a student to work
> for free.
>
>  Barry Wellman
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