Costs: $0. Renues: $$$$$

Remember when this was happening on a daily basis and was considered OK? Since then many advocates of child labor have worked hard to put a stop of this practice around the world. It embarrassed a lot of people and companies.
According to Ad Age's Simon Dumenco and Forrbes' Jeff Bercovici, Huffington Post and Patch are seeking 13-year olds and younger to be editors for a new vertical called HuffPost High School. All good, you'd say. Except that these editors are not paid. And the companies will collect ad revenue from advertisers, but will not share the revenue with the editors. One can only wonder: how is this different from child labor?
Read the Ad Age article here and Forbes' here.



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