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Looking for a getaway to southern California, Florida, or Washington D.C.? How about a 90-minute consultation on book writing and publishing with an established novelist? Or if you’re in the mood for fun, what about an insider’s trip to the Indy 500 or seats to Broadway’s Beautiful and a backstage tour or lunch with the producers?
All of these — and more — are available on ASJA’s first-ever Charitybuzz online auction, to benefit the ASJA Educational Foundation in its 70th Anniversary fundraising efforts. Please share this link widely and encourage your friends, family and social media network to bid! The auction will close this Thursday, May 24.
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During the awards ceremony at the NYC conference, ASJA awarded its prestigious Conscience in Media Award to the Maltese journalist, writer, and anti-corruption activist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Caruna Galizia, 53, was murdered in her native Malta, a Mediterranean island nation, on October 16, 2017 after numerous threats and attacks to her and her family. She had been writing since 1987 and was the first person in Malta to have a signed opinion column. Since 2008 she published her self-funded personal blog, Running Commentary, and at the time of her death she was a regular columnist with the Malta Independent. According to her son Matthew Caruana Galizia, also a journalist, her first interview with a politician in 1989 was the first time a politician in that country was confronted about issues faced by the electorate.
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| Salley Shannon Receives ASJA's 2018 Extraordinary Service Award
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How to define "extraordinary service?" Simple. Do what Salley Shannon does and then repeat, over and over again, year after year. Shannon has been ASJA's iron fist in a velvet glove, lobbying for first amendment and copyright law on Capitol Hill, serving as a fierce president, and gently but firmly wrangling nearly 100 judges and dozens of categories to make the awards process smooth and successful. ASJA is proud to recognize Salley Shannon with the 2018 Extraordinary Service Award. Thank you for your dedication to ASJA and independent writers!
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In this special post on ASJA Confidential, former ASJA President, Randy Dotinga relates how independent writer Deborah Copaken tells ASJA Magazine how sexual harassment left her devastated and helpless.
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The newest podcast episode is an interview with uber literary agent Katharine Sands of Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency in NYC. These podcasts are a free member benefit. Listen to Katharine's interview now, plus editors from AARP, Longreads, Woman's Day (print), The Columbia Journalism Review, Writer's Digest and more.
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We've got two new Virtual Pitch Slams for June (Atlantic CityLab) and July (Your Teen Magazine). Details are posted on the Virtual Pitch Slam page.
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Laziness Pays? Burning face after long hours on computer
Forbes
When starting out, most freelancers do it all by themselves and that’s totally fine. But the mistake many make as they grow is overlooking how setting up business systems can make their lives and their work more efficient, easier and certainly less stressful. That’s a shame.
If you continue to do it solo as your business grows, you’ll simply find yourself putting in longer hours and not realizing the enjoyment and the increased revenue you should. That’s not a path you want to tread.
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Columbia Journalism Review
The average news consumer is awash in data. This abundance presents challenges not just to the daily act of staying informed, but to the work of keeping content publicly available. At an April 13 conference, “Public Record Under Threat: News and the Archive in the Age of Digital Distribution,” scholars and specialists from organizations including the Internet Archive, Wikipedia, and the Center for Investigative Reporting discussed problems of preservation ranging from the technological to the financial.
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The WRITER
At first glance, the topic of rhetoric doesn’t inspire a belly laugh. Still, when professors Elizabeth Losh and Jonathan Alexander wrote the script for their comic book "Understanding Rhetoric," they found themselves guffawing over bottles of wine in Alexander’s kitchen, reading aloud in the voices of the characters they’d created and playing around with sight gags that would help university students speak and write more effectively.
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Poynter
Last week I paid off my credit card. On the day I was laid off, I had $0 in credit card debt, and it took more than 530 days to get back to that spot.
My debt was the most visible, constant reminder that I was going through something, even after I started my next job. Every cocktail forgone and every travel idea pushed aside reminded me that I was paying the price — literally — for getting laid off. It was something that was always on my mind, but I found it hard to talk about.
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The New York Times
For decades, leakers of confidential information to the press were a genus that included many species: the government worker infuriated by wrongdoing, the ideologue pushing a particular line, the politico out to savage an opponent. In recent years, technology has helped such leakers operate on a mass scale: Chelsea Manning and the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables, Edward Snowden and the stolen National Security Agency archive, and the still-anonymous source of the Panama Papers.
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