Journalism At $15.66 Per Word: Inward 1928, William Randolph Hearst Hired Mussolini To Write A Column For Cosmopolitan.

Spare a reckon for the journalists, As noted inward the intro to 2013's "Why Aren’t Top Journalists Rich?":

It wasn't ever thus.
In 1898 immature Winston Churchill, afterward a pair other writing gigs (Daily Graphic, Telegraph) went off to nation of war alongside a committee to write for The Morning Post. He produced xiii articles betwixt September 23 in addition to Oct 8, 1898 for which he was paid xv pounds each. According to the ever handy BoE inflation calculator that is the equivalent of  £1651.03 per, or  £21463.39 for the lot, $33,053 inward today's reserve currency for 15 days work. Not rich but non bad.

More on Churchill about other time, but hither are a pair to a greater extent than factoids: He charged a half-crown (2 1/2 shillings, $11.38) per give-and-take inward the 1930's, inward 1936 his writing income was the equivalent of $800,000 now.
Again, non rich but able to afford his Pol Roger.
Then he went on to acquire the highest paid scribbler of his twenty-four hours in addition to did about other materials too....

And today's floor of what they used to make:

...Hearst was enamored alongside Italian Premier Benito Mussolini, outset hiring him inward 1928 to write virtually the fascist perspective on sex relations, which is precisely what y'all mightiness think: “Man is inward sum possession of woman’s liberties, in addition to measures them to her equally a merchant does a slice of cloth,” etc. Mussolini faced backlash at the time, but Hearst all the same contracted him inward 1931 for a monthly column inward Cosmopolitan for $1 a word. That’s $15.66 per give-and-take today....

That's from "How Much is a Word Worth" yesteryear Malcolm Harris at Medium.

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Okay, non a existent Churchill quote but pretty funny. Here's the Churchill Centre's "Famous Quotations in addition to Stories".

In improver to the imitation quote higher upwards at that spot are hundreds of others that tin endure debunked using the Centre's 2.5 1000000 give-and-take database. (the guy only couldn't near up)
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