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The late Michael Jackson notwithstanding, “ABC” is not as easy as “123,” at least not when the topic of conversation is the controversial ABC test at the heart of California’s new independent contractor law.
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We have room for two more Special Interest Group leaders for the upcoming session. SIGs are four-week discussions held in a special section of the forum, where participants can learn and collaborate on topics relating to writing careers. The spring session begins April 27. If there's a topic you’re interested in and would like to host a SIG, let Jennifer Billock know.
More info about SIGs can be found on the ASJA website.
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What prize would you pick? 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 can pick one of these prizes: one day of the 2020 NYC conference, a day at a regional conference, a set of conference recordings, or a spot at a Virtual Client Connections event. The ASJA member who recruits the most Client Connections editors can pick one of the following prizes: a free day at the NYC or regional conference of your choice, a coveted slot at a Virtual Client Connections session or Virtual Pitch Slam in 2020, or a set of conference recordings. To enter, send an email to Cheryl Alkon with the clients — think publications, hospitals, nonprofits, universities, literary agents 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 Mon., April 20, at the ASJA Annual 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 Cheryl with any questions.
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“Worker protection” laws can be career-killing legislation. The U.S. Senate HELP Committee is considering the PRO bill now. Here’s how to fight back against such legislation.
- Find your representatives and track the PRO bill at https://www.govtrack.us/. HELP Committee members are listed here and include Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
- Contact elected officials and policymakers by email, phone and/or Twitter in Washington or in their home offices. Letters are delayed by two weeks for security reasons.
- Avoid cut-and-paste messages. Your own words are more authentic. Give the name of the bill you oppose and tell in a few words how it will affect you. Make it your best elevator pitch.
- Present yourself as a professional with specialized skills, akin to a doctor or CPA. Speak of your career and clients rather than your job or work.
- This legislation hurts women most of all, so Show and Tell — go to hearings and town halls, pack the room with women and children and tell how they will suffer.
- Organize all your writer friends and then reach out to everyone else you know who receives a 1099.
- Coordinate efforts to make an impact. Kim Kavin and friends in New Jersey got a representative’s attention when 1000 people called his office within an hour.
This is a big fight. Join the conversation on ASJA’s Facebook page.
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Remember to check in with the ASJA Forums to stay on top of what’s trending!
Here are a few of this week’s top posts:
Tweaks for a Sleeker Speaker Pitch
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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!
Adelphi University
Looking to add a more meaningful and personal dimension to your profession? Interested in a career change? Then consider developing a career as a psychotherapist!
Adelphi University’s License Qualifying Program in Psychoanalysis is specifically geared towards non-mental health professionals interested in entering the mental health field as psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Since the program is license qualifying, it allows you to add a deeper dimension of understanding of the human mind to your current career, and also gives you the opportunity to practice psychotherapy as a side job or full-time.
The program is part-time and designed for working professionals who have earned a master’s or other advanced degree in a non-mental health field. If you are interested in learning more please click here!
Fast Company
U.S. politicians recently took the first step toward nationalizing California’s AB 5 legislation. If ratified, American businesses, and the freelancers they work with, will face new restrictions that could harm, rather than help, both parties. Politicians may have their intentions in the right place, but it’s clear — at least to the freelancer community — that they haven’t done their homework.
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Journalism.co.uk
When you think about it, none of the press releases and story pitches filling up your inbox will win you scoop of the year. But they can help with the looming deadlines.
Many newspaper and magazine news desks rely on a steady stream of press releases to fill column space and update website sections. That is not to say journalists should run every story that crops up in their inbox, though.
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Columbia Journalism Review
In the year after I graduated from journalism school, I had more than a dozen job interviews that ended with variations of the same phrase. Thank you for coming in for the interview, someone would tell me, often with a sympathetic smile. We’ll be in touch. I’d seen all the discouraging statistics — for instance, that people with disabilities make up less than one percent of those who work full-time in the media. I’d hoped that I would beat those odds.
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The Writer
Bartók’s advice appeared in the July 2018 issue of The Writer, and her words have stuck with me months later. But how do successful writers maintain a steady creative practice — hanging on their stories like pit bulls, barriers be damned — and still keep their key personal relationships strong? Curious, I asked Bartók, along with three other writers whose careers are well-established.
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Writer's Digest
In today’s fractured media environment, every month sees another magazine shuttered. Rates get slashed on the regular. Increasingly, freelance journalists are finding that they not only need to work harder, but smarter as well — the “pitch story-write story” cycle can be draining. Before almost all content became available online, writers could simply rewrite a story and tailor it to another market, but that practice is no longer viable.
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