Name your price

Yet another common question: Why can't I write for Latin Trade and also do consulting work for corporations, or part-time PR. If it wasn't already obvious, consider this... and this...

Yet the real problem is not so much that some people are bad journalists, but that most of the non-journalist world has assumed, from the start, that anyone can be bought. Just the other day a huge advertising agency -- one of the biggest in the world -- e-mailed me asking what kind of "awards" I'd like to get as a journalist. I wrote back and asked, innocently enough, "You mean, like Pulitzer prize awards, or simply gifts to journalists?" He meant gifts, so I explained our no-gifts, no-travel policy.

They already think we can be bought and sold. Don't give 'em any rope on this.