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The other day, my 3-year-old said to me, “Mama, we need to get you new shoes. We’ll get them at the shoe store in the muffin aisle.” Frankly, I think a muffin aisle would vastly improve any shoe store. That which is unexpected and seemingly doesn’t fit can often make something so much better. What’s been the muffin aisle in a shoe store of your writing – or reading – life? A niche you never thought would fit you, but you made it work? A fantastic twist or unexpected character in a book that stayed with you? A new skill you never planned to learn? Think about it, then go get yourself a muffin… and maybe a new pair of shoes. You deserve it.
Cheers, Holly Leber Simmons, ASJA Weekly editor
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Meet the ASJA Conference Scholarship Recipients
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This year ASJA partnered with The Center for Independent Journalists, an organization for independent and freelance journalists of color, to offer those from under-represented backgrounds a scholarship to attend the 2022 ASJA annual conference in New Jersey. Here are the five recipients. And stay tuned over the next several weeks as we share blog posts in which each journalist reflects on their experience.
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Virtual Ed Committee Seeks Speakers
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The Virtual Education Committee is hard at work on filling our agenda for the year with more sessions that would be of interest to our community. We’re looking for a speaker who'd to take part in a panel on "Writing about what's happening in your own backyard".
We're looking for someone who has extensive experience in writing/covering local stories (and ideally has written a book about a story in their own backyard). Projected date for the panel is mid-late fall. For more information, contact Natasha Serafimovska at contact@serafimovska.com
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ASJA Volunteer Opportunities
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- Website Committee – Write web copy to help populate all 100+ pages of ASJA's spiffy new website. Take on as many or as few assignments as you wish. Contact dara@darachadwick.com.
- Virtual Pitch Slams – Find editors for monthly pitch sessions and handle registration logistics. Learn more about the program here. Contact Wendy Helfenbaum at wendy@taketwoproductions.ca.
- Virtual Education Committee – Define topics, find speakers and organize virtual educational events. Volunteers get to attend all events for free. Contact Karen Blum at karen_blum@verizon.net.
- Virtual Client Connections – Be the liaison for your assigned editor or literary agent and ASJA members with interviews. Step-by-step guidebook provided – takes 3-5 hours of your time. Contact Denise Caiazzo at phrasemakr@aol.com.
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Member News
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Holly Leber Simmons published several stories in the May-June issue of Currents Magazine for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, including one about the search for a long lost love.
Katie Navarra's article titled Fighting Fires, Together written for the Reiner magazine won first place in the news reporting category in the annual AHP Equine Media Awards.
Do you have professional news you’d like to share with the group? A new job, a story you’ve published (in article, blog post, book, cave painting, etc. form), a new project you’ve launched, an interview with someone fascinating, a speaking gig? Send your news (50 words or less, I will cut) and a link if applicable to Holly Leber Simmons, ASJA Weekly editor at hello@redpeneditorial.co (that’s .co like Coco Chanel or you go, Glen Coco). Please put “ASJA Member News” in your subject line or it might not be seen.
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Freelancer travel guide: How to stay on top of tasks
Travel Daily News
Millions of people worldwide have begun embracing freelancing and the opportunities and freedom it brings. A freelancer is a person who doesn't work for the company directly and doesn't attend the office. Many might see them as free birds, working anywhere they like and for as long as they like.
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What is the 'product' of journalism?
Poynter
For a long time, journalists thought the “product” they produced was articles. It isn’t and it never was. For most of the 20th century, the product was the physical newspaper. The product was double-sided paper thrown at the doorstep every morning. Reporters produced articles and they were packaged inside the product, like so many chips in a bag.
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The ongoing information war over Ukraine
Columbia Journalism Review
Recently, a pair of leaks to the press shined a fresh light on the extent of US assistance to Ukraine in its war against Russia. On Wednesday, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, and Eric Schmitt, of the New York Times, reported, citing “senior American officials,” that the US has provided Ukrainian officials with locational details of Russian movements that they have subsequently combined with their own information and used to target and kill Russian generals — a flow of intelligence, the Times wrote, that “has few precedents.”
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