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By Sandra Gurvis
I have been an ASJA member since the early 1990s. Through good times and bad, renewing my membership has been as essential as paying taxes and feeding the cats, although the consequences of not doing either of the latter two might possibly be more dire. But not by much: In my more-than 25 years as a member, ASJA has been a lifeline, not only in helping me find work and keeping me up to speed on the latest trends, but perhaps more essential, providing emotional support and invaluable advice.
In a perfect world, ASJA membership might come with a guaranteed six-figure income and an endless supply of clients. “But it doesn’t work by osmosis,” observes membership chair Jennifer Gregory. “You get out of it what you put into it.” And in no particular order, here are some things about why it’s a good thing to join ASJA.
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The American Society of Journalists and Authors has honored 11 young writers, between the ages of 14 and 25, for essays submitted in the organization’s call for personal stories from gay and transgender youth. The essay competition was made possible as part of a $35,000 national reporting project on the topic of “Gender Identity: What's the Cost?”
“These young writers have exposed a compelling need for society to pay close attention to the stress, anxiety and depression that they have experienced in their journeys,” says Milt Toby, ASJA President and a member of ASJA’s advisory committee on the national reporting project. Click here for more information.
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This year’s NYC Conference hashtag is #ASJA2019.
Give us a tweet (and mention @ASJA) to help us spread the word about our unparalleled programming, including Masterminds (new) and Client Connections (for professional members). Help us get #ASJA2019 trending, and let your writer peeps know where they should be May 5-6! (And if you haven’t registered, now’s the time!)
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Help your fellow writers — and score some major perks for yourself — by entering the Client Connections Recruitment Contest. The ASJA member who recruits the most Client Connections clients will attend one day of the 2019 conference for FREE!
To enter, send an email to Cindy Kuzma and let her know which clients — think publications, hospitals, nonprofits, universities, and content marketing agencies located in the greater New York City area — you can invite to Client Connections, the afternoon of one-on-one, nine-minute meetings to be held Monday, May 6, at the annual ASJA Conference in New York City. She’ll send you an invite form to forward and track who signs up. The member with the most clients who register wins! Contact Cindy with any questions.
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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!
The Writer
You wouldn’t be a writer if you didn’t dare to dream, and dream big. Whether the ambitions that drive you are creative, critical, commercial, or all three, those dreams (and delusions) are part of why you started writing in the first place. Wild hopes and lofty goals can help motivate you through the hardest and most dispiriting parts of the writing and publishing processes. But they also can throw you off track, position you for failure and even get in the way of the writing itself.
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Writer's Digest
A picture may be worth a thousand words — but a cover design can be worth 50,000. You want the cover of your book to be just as thoughtfully constructed as its contents, and for that you need an excellent book cover designer with whom you have a strong collaborative relationship.
To help you get the most value out of this partnership, we turned to some of the top professional cover designers for their across-the-aisle tips on how authors can build and maintain such successful working relationships.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Last week, Farhad Manjoo wrote a column entitled “Never Tweet,” in which the New York Times writer argued that Twitter is toxic for journalists, and that we should disengage from it as much as possible. “Twitter is ruining American journalism,” he said bluntly. The column sparked been plenty of commentary agreeing with him (much of it on Twitter, ironically). But there has also been a significant amount of pushback — and not just from the usual Twitter-addicted cohort, but journalists from a variety of backgrounds, who see it as a valuable reporting tool.
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Techno Codex
Money management is a hard task especially when you do not earn much. However, with time you can move over to better clients who will pay you more. For that purpose, you will need to learn to manage to money well since they may not have the same consistency of providing work. To be very honest, this is really the only way you can get rid of a low paying job to switch to the best remote job for essay writers. The good news is that it will get easier for you as time passes by until then, be strict with your money.
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Journalism.co.uk
While the journalism community is slowly starting to take note of blockchain, for many it is still a mystery.
But there is more to this technology than just Bitcoin, and an increasing number of startups use blockchain to address some of the biggest problems journalists face today, like misinformation or lack of trust in the media brands.
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