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Thrown in the Trash by NewsBreak
Out with the old, in with the robots.
My time writing for NewsBreak is now over. The upstart news app used writers like me to get their bandwagon going, and now it has discarded us after becoming respectable in the realm of news.
I can’t blame them when it comes to me, as I’ve been writing opinion pieces exclusively for the last year. I started out writing local news articles about Oregon, but changed my strategy because of time constraints.
I would take news articles from Oregon and rewrite them basically; not with AI, just with my noggin. Some did well, others were stalled by their algorithm. I could never tell if an article would do well or not.
All in all, I made more money with NB than any other writing effort online besides copywriting. This brings me a lot of satisfaction with my time there, but sadly, it has come to an end.
Recently, they sent me an email explaining they are going to make all the contributors reapply to be a contributor, as their strategy has changed; something like that. Well, I knew the writing was on the wall; this meant they were going to filter out all the less desirable.
What surprised me is when they allowed me to write opinion pieces around a year ago. I would just take the articles written for Medium or Substack and put…
