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Katherine Steiner-Dicks

Katherine Steiner-Dicks is an Editorial Consultant and Founder of BuzzVestor Media, a B2B investment news-analysis and media services company that serves startups, publishers, investors, targeted clients and high-net-worth families on how to to create and sustain amazing content, businesses, wealth and lifestyles.

Employment Rights Bill: why the 2026 freelancer hiring boom could be short-lived

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Dec 17, 2025

Government's day-one dismissal pledge falls short as experts predict hiring freeze for new perm hires and surge in contractor demand. However, this trend could be short-lived due to an upcoming work status consultation The Employment…

Coyote Ugly Musical to Reignite Theatre’s Wild Side and dispell Dame Judi Dench’s…

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Dec 15, 2025

Coyote Ugly is becoming a West End musical in 2027 with songs by Diane Warren and direction by Jerry Mitchell. Could this cult classic bring younger audiences back to the theatre? Just as Dame Judi Dench (91) voices concerns about…

Small business owners feel “mugged” again by Reeves

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Dec 14, 2025

Small business owners are expressing their discontent over their exclusion from Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ December glitzy drinks party for scale-ups. Here we share their viewpoints and how the Labour Party's tax policies…

What should freelancers be doing right now to land clients in January?

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Dec 11, 2025

Here are some end-of-year tasks to help freelancers land new clients in 2025 The period between now and the new year might feel like the worst possible time to think about spreadsheets and client acquisition. Hiring seems to have dried…

When freelance job platforms start offering credit, is it time to celebrate or address the payment…

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Dec 10, 2025

OPINION A Youlend-Upwork partnership highlights growing freelancer reliance on credit to bridge cash flow gaps and take on bigger projects. Despite filling a market gap, Katherine Steiner-Dicks feels something fundamental about the…

Report: Freelance journalism rates frozen for 25 years

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Dec 5, 2025

Industry squeeze pushes publications to rely on 80% outsourced content as staff numbers plummet Freelance journalism rates have barely budged in a quarter of a century, with some editors paying writers "not far off" what they offered 25…

The Freelance Champion we need: Why Britain’s £366bn workforce deserves more

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Dec 3, 2025

Britain's 4.38m freelancers need an independent cross-sector Freelance Champion and Commissioner who has legislative voting rights When the House of Lords debated the government's Employment Rights Bill back in July, peers raised a…

Starmer defends his Chancellor and the Budget. But business owners say the country has been…

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Dec 1, 2025

Despite Chancellor Reeves facing calls for her resignation, Prime Minister Starmer stands by her, the Budget and fiscal gap claims Budget background and backlash Business owners and MPs, such as Shadow chancellor of the Duchy of…

Reeves’ Budget raids savings, family legacies, pensions and self-employed “wealth”. But on the…

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Nov 26, 2025

“Rachel Reeves says the government wants to make the best place in the world for businesses, but has landed a handful of blows to business owners today,” Matthew Knight, Chief Freelance Officer at The Independency Co., tells The Freelance…

Autumn Budget 2025: End of an era? Here’s what the independent workforce should look out for

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Nov 25, 2025

The forthcoming UK Autumn Budget, scheduled to be delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves on Wednesday, 26 November, could be a watershed moment when it comes to taxation of the self-employed, freelance and contingent workforce. …

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