Nope - If that account is disabled and then reactivated and updates with a new publication, it's not counted.

I started doing a fansite in 2003, and didn't call myself a videogames journalist until I was on staff in 2007. I would never call myself a real journalist, although I did write for some amazing lifestlye magazines etc.

Yeah, I feel for you there. I once had a fullt-time editoral role at $18k. I took a $10k pay cut to get out of freelancing, and that role was $6k higher than a magazine role.

People should be paid for the value they bring, but online publishing pay has never been good from independent publishers.

They're classified as freelancers. But, I have no control over how Gamurs pay thier staff, or that they moved from staffed to freelancers post aquisition.

Prior to aquisitions, the vast majority of their staff were full-time. They might not have been paid well, but that's another story.

And to clarify, I have never said full-time staff. I've said journalists. Being paid to write can, but doesn't always make you a journalist. Nobody on the planet could claim to know if someone is full-time or not, but our classification is as near as you can possibly get, I think.

We classify freelancers differently than full-time staff (They are also attached to multiple outlets on the platform).

We classify tier one media (for the most part, and with a few exceptions), as websites with close to 1m deduplicated UMV+, owned by a business, paying their writers.

Then I'll consider you shocked. There are thousands of media writing for thousands of tier one publications globally.

I'm more than happy to show you if you'd like (I can hide their details). gareth [at] pressengine [dot] net

We didn't add you as a contact - we have clients.

As per privacy laws, they have a reasonable right to contact you and you have a right to request removal. We did that within a matter of hours.

Hey Jason, That's globally. Some territories have more videogames media than others, and a tier one website from thailand may be entirely unknown in the US or Europe.

Also, the E3 leak didn't include an awful lot of media from oustide the US who didn't travel due to cost and/or relevance

Agree, but yor suggestions about the IDF are baseless, and denying a genocide is ridiculous at this point.

You're obviously not a serious person with that response.

Of course they should have been freed a long time ago, but you ignored the most important part of my post.

This is political, genocidal action to destroy a people. Does that not matter?