Will Washington Post’s Talent Network Become the Uber of Freelancing?

For all the technological progress that has been made in the past couple decades, it often seems like freelancing for media companies is stuck in the ’90s.   When I wrote a story for BuzzFeed, which, admittedly, doesn’t work with freelancers very often, edits were done over Google Docs, contracts were passed between a number of business intermediates and the check took almost a month to arrive in my mailbox.