Amy DePaul is an award-winning digital reporter who has covered public health in Southern California since 2011. She is the recipient of local, regional and national awards for her reporting, and was recently named a Senior Fellow at USC’s Center for Health Journalism. Her work has been published in a variety of digital and print publications including NBC.com, Voice of OC, LATimes.com, the Orange County Register, ESPN’s The Undefeated and Narratively. She has taught reporting to students at UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton and Miami University of Ohio. For more information, visit
https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/users/amydepaul-0.
Rian Dundon is a photographer and editor in Oakland, CA. He is a contributing editor at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. He contributes to The New York Times, City Lab and California Sunday Magazine, among other publications.
Gema Galiana is a photographer/videographer from Spain, who is currently based in Los Angeles. In 2017, she won first prize in the Institute for Nonprofit News’ annual photograph contest.

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Amy DePaul
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers UnionWU, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.