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By Nicole Cohen, Work and Labour Editor Back in October, freelance journalist Scott Carney launched Word Rates, a website for freelance journalists to pool information about publications’ pay rates, editors, and contracts (the site claims it’s like Yelp! for journalists). Carney, who has long been critical of the low fees magazines pay writers, told Contently that “… people…