Vox Media cuts hundreds of freelance journalists as California employment law changes loom
by Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times
Dec 17, 2019
3 minutes
Since California adopted the new state employment law AB 5 in September, freelance journalists in the state have been scrambling to understand how their livelihoods may be affected after it takes effect Jan. 1. Now some are finding out.
New York-based Vox Media said Monday it would end contracts with hundreds of freelance writers and editors in California who covered sports for the blog network SB Nation as the company came into compliance with the law, which could have forced it to reclassify some of these
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