What the hell is going on at New York magazine ??
An inside look from a staffer in the union
My first paid writing job was for New York magazine, when I was at Barnard. I wrote recaps of the show Girls, which I turned in overnight. I received $200, maybe $250, per recap. (I was a scholarship student doing work study in the video library, and living off an internship grant Columbia gave me to work at n+1. In the summers, I was still working as a…