Stop the Presses: California’s Freelance Journalists Await the Pinch of AB 5

Richard Procter has some tough decisions to make. The SF Weekly editor relies on as many as a dozen freelance writers for a "substantial amount," he says, of the alternative newspaper's content, including articles and columns about cannabis, film, music and theater. But a California law that takes effect Jan. 1 limits publications from accepting more than 35 pieces a year from each freelance writer, photographer and newspaper cartoonist.

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