AMH chops correspondents payment rates by 25%

ALPHA Media Holdings (AMH), which publishes NewsDay, the Zimbabwe Independent, the Standard and the Southern Eye newspapers, is at war with its correspondents after it unilaterally chopped their payment rates.

All along the correspondents dotted across the country have been getting $20 per article.
 
However, in an email dispatched this Friday, the firm pegged new rates at $15 per article.
Reads the email leaked to Bulawayo24.com

Dear all
I hope I find you well.

A resolution was made to cut costs which among others include payment of articles. Payment per article is now $15. Any inconveniences caused is sincerely regretted.

Regards

The correspondents have not been paid since August last year. Some have threatened to stop filing.
Meanwhile, permanent staffers are still patiently waiting for their October half pay and full November and December salaries.