$1,000 per case
Handshake AI and a freelance journalist (offer made to the author of the piece): price range, a newsroom's reporting file: notes, transcripts, drafts, editor markup, published piece and correction
Dated 15 Oct 2026Source checked 15 Oct 2026Basis: reported
In the source's own words
“Each set of reporting documents would be considered a “case,” the message explained, and each case needed to have at least fifty documents, three file types, and a variety of document lengths. Handshake offered a thousand dollars per case.”
Where it was read
Columbia Journalism Review (Jules Roscoe), checked 15 Oct 2026
Also read from the same source
- One complete journalism reporting case (at least 50 documents in three file types: pitch, reporting notes, interview transcripts, FOIA responses, source documents, drafts, editor markup, the published piece and any correction), offered to a working journalist for a perpetual licence
- Handshake AI: Passing it on
What it is about
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