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[–]MarkTwainiac 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

But which publisher?

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Here's where she talked about being dropped but it doesn't mention which one. https://twitter.com/JuliaDRobertson/status/1309984278093103104

I was told I'm being dropped in January

This sounds more like a news or magazine than a book publisher

Julia Diana Ghassan Robertson is an award-winning Arab-American author and has contributed to Huffington Post, AfterEllen, Quillette, Curve, Feminist Current and more.

Maybe one of these. Perhaps she can't say because of her contract right now, but January will tell.

[–]BEB 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

After Ellen is now owned by gender critical lesbians, or at least, was last time I checked. So please support After Ellen!

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, I saw what she tweeted coz I follow her & read her articles. But in communications media, "publisher" usually means a book publisher or a music publisher. Or in the case of newspapers, magazines, journals, websites and online media outlets, the publisher is the person/officers/side of the operation in charge of the business aspects, such as printing, distribution, selling and placing ads, subscriptions, legal and regulatory affairs, insurance, HR policies, etc - whereas it's editors or the editorial division who commission articles/content, put freelancers on contract and hire and fire writers, illustrators, photographers and so on.

Using the customary lingo in the industry, a writer or other "content creator" who's been on contract to write articles for outlets like HuffPo, After Ellen and the others she lists would say they've had their contract terminated, or been informed their contract will not be renewed. Not that they were "dropped by their publisher." That suggests the unilateral termination of a relationship with a book or magazine publisher for whom one has legally contracted to provide a series of books or albums/records.

I guess she could mean an online publisher like Medium or WordPress. But as I understand it, outfits like that don't put writers on contract. They are open to anyone, but they can - and do - cancel and ban any writers/content creators who don't jibe with their own political views, and they customarily do so immediately.