Overworked Intern Sues Hearst
Controversy 02.02.12
The lawsuit could become a class-action suit on behalf of the hundreds of unpaid interns Wang and her attorneys say Hearst Magazines--publishers of Cosmo, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, O The Oprah Magazine, and Marie Claire, among others--consistently employ.
As the economy has struggled, magazines have relied on unpaid interns for getting much of their work done, especially for over-taxed staffs churning out multiple versions of magazines for multiple formats.