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Professional Members, sign up for the ASJA Austin Client Connections Lottery. Registration closes at 9 p.m. Eastern Friday, Jan. 19. Sign up for the lottery HERE. This is the ONLY way to sign up to meet with these clients. Be sure to read the FAQs if this is your first time participating.
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I was scrolling through LinkedIn and came across a post by freelance copywriter Ana Gascon Ivey. “I had been working as a health researcher and writer for a book publisher,” she writes. “It was satisfying work at first, but after a few years I got restless. So when a position opened up in the company’s copywriting department, I threw my name in the hat and took the copywriting test.” Because she failed the test, she could not be considered for the job.
Rather than throwing up her hands in defeat, she got a book titled You Are a Badass, decided to quit the company and strike out on her own, in a few short months earning a successful living. But it got me wondering. How many other would-be writers and editors have had their dreams crushed by these tests? I have taken them on a few occasions, and with a single notable exception, also didn’t pass muster and was passed over.
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Our 2018 ASJA Writing Awards are open for entries, now through 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 1. Sort through your stories, essays and personal blog posts published last year. 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, done! See the Awards rules here. For descriptions of the awards categories, please click here.
PS: Tell your writer friends that if they apply now for membership, they’ll be eligible for all the awards, not just those open to the public. (Sure, it’s generating your own competition. But hey, a good deed creates good karma!)
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If you've been thinking to yourself, "Self, how do I get more involved in ASJA?" we've got your answer: sign up to lead a Special Interest Group (SIG). SIGs are small (up to 12 people) private groups that meet on a special section of the forum to discuss a particular topic. Past SIGs have included six-figuring freelancing, travel, content marketing, history writing, corporate writing and more. Future SIGs will include...well, that's where you come in! SIG wrangler Kate Silver is open to your ideas. To be a good SIG leader, you need to be willing to dedicate time, lead and contribute to discussions and share your own expertise. To get involved, email Kate at thekatesilver@gmail.com.
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Feb. 8 is your chance to pitch American Way, the inflight magazine for American Airlines.
Virtual Pitch Slams (VPS) are one-hour interactive phone conference calls during which a moderator hosts a client, who outlines what his/her outlet is looking for from freelance writers. Then, ASJA Professional members give live pitches by telephone, followed by constructive feedback on each story idea.
ASJA Professional members can sign up on a first-come, first-served basis beginning Thursday, Jan. 25 at noon Eastern to get one of the 15 pitching slots. The sign up link will be here. Due to technical limitations, professional and associate members can no longer sign up just to listen; VPS will also be recorded and accessible via ASJA’s website shortly after the event.
Be sure to read the VPS FAQs here for more information.
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Yes, another new group of applicants for ASJA has passed the Membership Application Committee's review and the list of prospective members has now been posted.
We invite active members to review the list and send any comments, pro or con, to the ASJA office at membership@asja.org no later than the comment deadline shown. Comments will be sent to the Application Committee for consideration. All comments will be kept confidential, for Application Committee use only.
Review the list of prospective members here.
Publishers Lunch
John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan — the parent company of Henry Holt, the publisher of Michael Wolff's FIRE AND FURY — sent a letter to the company's employees on Monday morning, provided to Publishers Lunch. The letter began "Last Thursday, shortly after 7 a.m., we received a demand from the President of the United States to 'immediately cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination' of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury. On Thursday afternoon we responded with a short statement saying that we would publish the book, and we moved the pub date forward to the next day."
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NIHCM Foundation
The NIHCM Foundation Health Care Print Journalism Awards recognizes excellence in health care reporting and writing on the financing and delivery of health care and the impact of health care policy. The prize is $10,000 and the entry deadline is Feb. 16, 2018. Entries must originally have been published in 2017.
For more information and online entry, visit www.nihcm.org/awards/print-journalism-awards
The Association for Garden Communicators
Do you have a topic aimed at professional writers and building their skills and their businesses? GWA: The Association for Garden Communicators has opened their call for speaker proposals for their 70th Annual Conference & Expo (#GWA2018) in Chicago, IL, Aug. 13-16, and is looking for informative and interesting topics covering writing, business, publishing, social media and much more. Whether you are a garden communicator or just a professional writer, all proposals are welcome from GWA members and non-members alike. Deadline: Jan. 31. Learn more here.
In the communication industries of today, change is the new normal. This survey is designed to examine the roles and status of communication professionals, including the types of positions they hold, the role mentoring has played in their careers and their access to management opportunities in all of the major communication industries.
This study and second national survey about the role and status of women and men in the communication industries, is being conducted by the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in the College of Communication, Architecture & the Arts at Florida International University.
The 2017 survey is being distributed to leading professional associations in newspaper, magazine, online and broadcast journalism; advertising, and public relations. The survey was first administered in 2015 — the first time in at least a decade that all of these industries were being surveyed at the same time. This survey replicates the first survey.
The Kopenhaver Center will release the results of this study in early 2018 and publish them as well on its Kopenhaver Center website. Results also will be sent to the corresponding professional organizations that participated in this study.
Your participation is voluntary, and your responses are anonymous. The survey should take you no more than 20 minutes to complete.
If you have any questions about this survey, please contact Lillian A. Abreu at the Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication, at labreu@fiu.edu or 305-919-4065
Columbia Journalism Review
As the news industry lurches from one existential crisis to another, one bright spot has emerged for those of us crazy enough to consider it: freelancing. With fewer staff reporters on the ground, freelance journalists have increasingly become the best and sometimes only resources for news outlets to gather the facts, details, and color they need to tell the world’s stories. And for those yearning to report overseas, going freelance has increasingly become the best — or at least the quickest — way to do that.
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Writer's Digest
A few years ago I decided to make my New Year’s Resolution that I would give up making resolutions. This might sound counter-intuitive but let me explain. For years I thought the only way I would make progress toward my goals was if I planned every incremental step with military-like precision. The problem was, I spent so much energy with all the pre-planning that I never got around to doing much in the way of writing.
I know I’m not alone in this struggle, because I talk to a lot of writers and at least half of them tell me their biggest challenge is building discipline and finding motivation. In other words, what we all need is a giant dose of chair glue.
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Poynter
When I first studied ethics in the early 1980s, I came across a model for thinking and acting — we might now call it an algorithm — called The Potter Box. Named after Ralph B. Potter of Harvard Divinity School, the box contained four quadrants.
Starting in the top left quadrant, and moving counterclockwise, The Potter Box gave us:
1. Facts
2. Values
3. Principles
4. Loyalties.
The purpose of the box was to help communications professionals make ethical decisions in a systematic way.
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TIME
It’s not easy making your way in the gig economy. But the new tax law should take out some of the sting.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed by President Trump in December, aims to deliver cuts almost across the board. However, freelancers — whether Uber drivers, wedding photographers, or journalists — get a special perk.
The new benefit, which allows taxpayers to shave their taxable income by roughly one-fifth, applies to so-called “pass-through” (or business) income, starting in 2018.
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