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What tools does Facebook offer to freelance journalists? How can freelancers use Google and other online tools? To find out, sign up for two new Mastermind sessions! On June 19, learn to Leverage Free Tools from Google to Support Your Freelance Lifestyle, running from 2 – 5 p.m. Eastern time. And, on June 25, trainers from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Facebook Journalism project will offer a two-hour Mastermind, from 3 - 5 p.m. Eastern time. Register here. Cost: $35 for members; $60 for non-members. Stay tuned for information about an Advanced Social Media Mastermind with Sree Sreenivasan coming soon!
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Virtual Conference Snack Chats are a great way to network when you register for the full Virtual Conference.
ASJA’s first virtual conference is just around the corner, and one exciting aspect will be the Snack Chats. We know you miss the popular lunch breakout sessions and networking at the live conference, and we’re working hard to make those kinds of experiences happen. Snack Chats are small, online networking groups where a moderator guides us in great conversations. Meet other members and faculty and ask your questions. Snack Chats are being set up for each track — journalism, content marketing and books.
NOTE: Snack Chats will be available each month for track and full conference registrants.
These groups will have size limits based on a first-registered, first-served basis. Behind-the-scenes volunteers are working hard to configure the sessions and create enough to accommodate many people within small groups. Register here.
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Sooner rather than later, we all hope, the pandemic will subside, markets will recover, and we'll all get back to work. The constitutional issues raised in our lawsuit challenging California’s AB5 are not going away, however, and ASJA will continue to lead the fight against federal and state legislation that threatens our ability to work as independent writers.
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By Debra Wallace
Elise Adams, hoping that her dreams of having a family are not being shattered while the entire country is shut down, focuses instead on deepening her relationship with her husband and finding joy in life’s simple pleasures.
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Forbes
Here’s the real American dream: you can work from anywhere in the world (this laptop has lived a good, adventurous life), you get to make your own schedule, you’re always working with new clients, you’re your own boss, oh, yeah — and you aren’t strapped for cash, either! Isn’t that what we’re all working towards? Well, another aspect of entrepreneurship is freelancing. Instead of running your own business, you run your own "self," which offers services that can help other business owners. Freelancing can take on a number of forms: social media management, graphic design, copyediting, or in the case for Alexandra Fasulo, writing.
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Adweek
On Thursday, June 4, employees at two major newspapers — The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer — took the day off in protest of the way their newsrooms have chosen to cover the inflamed racial justice protests currently taking place.
And with media unions ramping up debate about newsroom diversity, approaches to editorial decisions and even divestment from police unions within their labor networks, it’s likely that more newsrooms will see internal protests, too.
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The Washington Post
For black journalists, the civil unrest in cities across America isn’t just a big story. It’s personal.
This was underscored for Branden Hunter in Detroit Saturday night. A rifle-toting police officer walked up to a group of reporters covering a chaotic night of demonstrations. As they all yelled “press” and held up their credentials, he made a beeline to one in particular.
It was Hunter — one of the few black news reporters at the Detroit Free Press and the only one on that sidewalk — who drew the officer’s attention, though he also showed his press badge.
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NBC News
Chris O'Reilly, 28, turned to the freelancing website Upwork when he lost his job in March after the country went into lockdown to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. After applying for a handful of job postings, he was invited to a Skype interview for a proofreading and editing job at the pharmaceutical company Sanofi.
Things were looking up. A few days later, he got an offer letter on what appeared to be an official Sanofi letterhead and an emailed check to buy supplies that his new employer said were for his home office.
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The Guardian
Journalists working in conflict zones and authoritarian states have been warning for years: Reporting is becoming more dangerous. What little protection a press pass or camera might have afforded in the past has meant less than ever on the battlefields of Syria, in small-town India or on the streets of Hong Kong. This was the week that trend burst into view in U.S. cities.
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