Jezebel: The Mix by Hearst is a newish “contributor network,” a way for freelance writers to break into the many websites that make up the Hearst, among them Elle.com, Cosmopolitan.com, TownandCountryMag.com, Seventeen.com, and MarieClaire.com. Contributors are said to be paid $100 per post, plus a bonus if they go viral. There’s an interesting twist, however, to the way The Mix works: every day, contributors are given a list of headlines, and asked to write stories to match them. If a contributor’s story is selected, she makes that $100; most everyone else who submitted a story under the same headline gets zip.