I have submitted 1 article to them. I have several articles in the works. I have met many fine people online as a result. There are others here who have submitted many more. There are some who should submit, but that is their choice.
DGJ does not exercise any editing. They take the articles as submitted and publish them. In my experience they only do layout of photos and may choose to exclude one or more photos if they do not have the room.
So your issue is with the author. In my experience there is no negotiation of payment. In fact, if they pay you, it may take months to receive the check. Given all the research and photos and writing, I figured I was paid something like .50 an hour or .10 a word.
These articles are works of love by the individual authors. Publishing in DGJ will not make you rich or famous. It will cause many sleepless nights as you struggle to be accurate. When completed, you still have to proof read / correct the work. Even with all that, as time goes by, you wish you could go back and "fix" the article with information that has surfaced after publication.
Pete
