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Jump start your 2020 business by participating in the next Virtual Client Connections being held Jan. 28-31 and Feb. 4-7. We’ve got some great people hoping to connect with you. At VCC you can meet editors and agents by phone or Zoom. You’ll get to pitch story ideas one-on-one or talk about what a particular editor is looking for. Sign up TODAY, Jan. 14, at 2 p.m. EST, on a first-come, first-served basis. Stay tuned to the Forums, ASJA Weekly and the ASJA website for more information or contact stacey.freed@gmail.com or LisaRoepe@gmail.com if you have questions.
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Sort through your stories, essays, personal blog posts or books published in 2019. Pick out your best — the ones that make you proud — then consult the list of writing award categories for the best fit. Fill out the entry form, and you’re done! See the awards rules here and for descriptions of the awards categories, click here. Last year we added several new categories including Travel, Food & Drink, and Fitness & Sports, and this year, we’ve added categories exclusively for Science writing and Technology writing.
Entries are accepted through Jan. 30, 9 p.m. EST. Members are eligible for all awards and there are five categories open to the public.
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Mark your calendars for your chance to pitch to the new Medium publication, The Level, which pays $1 per word. The event takes place Thursday, Jan. 30, from 2-3 p.m. EST. First-come, first-served signups open Monday, Jan. 20, at noon EST. The registration link will be posted here.
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Registrations are already rolling in for 2020’s ASJA conference in New York City, held at New York Marriott Downtown, in Lower Manhattan's Financial District on April 19-20. This year's theme is "The Independent Writer's Best Friend," focused on fighting back against legal threats to a freelance writer's career and also embracing the new world of freelance journalism. We’re planning more than 50 writing workshops, panel discussions, training sessions and other events, including intimate, extended-length Mastermind sessions.
The keynote speaker is journalist and tech maven Sree Sreenivasan. Like past conferences, Client Connections (stay tuned for details about signing up for the lottery) links members with editors and agents who are hiring through short, one-on-one speed-dating-like sessions.
Register at this dedicated conference site. Questions? Contact 2020 conference chair Randy Dotinga at randydotinga@gmail.com or associate conference chair Kristine Hansen at kristinehansenwriter@gmail.com. How can we make this conference the best yet and better serve your needs? Don't hesitate to let us know!
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Our roster of volunteer judges is filling out and there’s still time to join! Can you give us 3-5 (very enjoyable) hours? Besides reading some truly terrific entries, judging is a great way to get to know other members. And you get to talk about writing! (If you're entering an article or book yourself, that's fine. We can work around that.) We'll be judging through February. New members encouraged! Click here to register to be a judge.
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Join your ASJA colleagues on a fascinating guided tour of Cuba! The weeklong tour (March 21-28, 2020) begins and ends in Havana and includes five nights at the four-star NH Capri Hotel de Habana, two evenings at a private guesthouse in Trinidad, all ground transportation within Cuba, guided tours, seminars, lectures, several concerts and dance performances, entry to several museums and attractions, almost all meals (including libations) and other captivating activities and events.
The cost is $3,885 per person/double occupancy; $4,285 per person/single. Space is limited. To secure your spot, complete registration form and send a $1,500 deposit.
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 Shop on Amazon? ASJA members, family and friends now have an easy way to donate to ASJA Charitable Trust! Next time you’re ready to shop on Amazon, start your shopping session at the URL http://smile.amazon.com. Select American Society of Journalists and Authors Charitable Trust as your charity, and Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases! Ready to start shopping? Click here to default ASJACT as your charity of choice!
CBS News
A federal judge Monday, Jan. 6, would not temporarily exempt freelance journalists and photographers from a new California labor law that makes it harder for companies to claim workers are independent contractors instead of employees.
The judge said they waited too long to challenge the restrictions, despite claiming the new rules could put some of them out of business.
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Business 2 Community
In recent years, freelance writing has taken off and become a fruitful career for many. As more people gravitate towards working from home and being their own boss, freelancing gains popularity. In the U.S. alone, there are 57 million freelancers and 51% say they wouldn’t return to a traditional job.
Perhaps you’ve decided to leap into the world of freelance writing. You’re ready to ditch the nine-to-five life of an employee and become your own boss. But where do you start? How do you prepare yourself for your first writing client?
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
This year’s report adopts a new format which highlights the views of digital leaders on the key issues facing the news industry and combines this with five forward-looking contributions from the Reuters Institute. The main purpose is to provide useful insights for the year ahead and to identify the most important media trends.
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ProPublica
In August, we spent an evening hand-addressing more than 200 letters, mostly to residents of Memphis, Tennessee. The city is the second-poorest large metropolitan area in the country, with nearly 1 in 4 residents living below the poverty line. About half of the letter recipients had been sued by a private-equity backed doctors group because of unpaid medical bills. The other half had been sued by a separate company.
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Journalism.co.uk
How can news organizations inspire positive change when the public is so saturated with negative news, that a third of us are avoiding it altogether?
News avoidance makes it difficult for journalism to be heard, and it is only made harder today when you add new platforms into the mix, each with another set of algorithms and filter bubbles to contend with.
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