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Hello, hey, hiya, greetings and salutations. We’re going to be kicking off a new little feature here: ASJA Connection Success. We want to hear about a success (a new client, an assignment, a new agent, a book deal) you’ve had because of your association with ASJA. This can be a referral from another member, a connection you made with an editor at an ASJA event, like Client Connections (virtual counts, too), a client who found you via the Member Search function, following pitching advice from ASJA Magazine, etc. There just has to be a direct ASJA connection. We’re keeping it short and sweet – who, what, when, where, why, how (much?), 100 words tops. Email me at hello@redpeneditorial.co with the subject “ASJA Connection Success, and we’ll get the ball rolling.
Cheers, Holly Leber Simmons, ASJA Weekly editor
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Applications Open for Columbia's 2022 Age Boom Academy: "Caregiving and Our Longer Lives: The $500 Billion Question"
ASJA
Columbia Journalism School announces its annual call for applicants for the Age Boom Academy. Now in its third decade, the 2022 edition of this free virtual forum will help journalists deepen their coverage of the caregiving crisis across America and offer one-on-one interviews with experts and current caregivers. Training will be held over four two-hour sessions on October, 13, 14, 20 and 21. The deadline to apply is June 30, 2022. For further information, visit ageboom.columbia.edu or contact Caitlin Hawke at cmh2197@cumc.columbia.edu.
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ASJA Volunteer Opportunities
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- 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 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
Melanie Padgett Powers, owner of MelEdits, has launched a second podcast called Association Station (her first podcast is Deliberate Freelancer). In each weekly episode, Melanie interviews a membership association leader in the area of content, publications and media. The podcast is free on all the major podcast apps.
Randi Minetor had two articles on birds and bird conservation published in June: one in Birding magazine on grasslands and the conflict between grazing and breeding birds; and the other in the peer-reviewed journal North American Birds on the expansion of limpkin populations throughout the southeastern US.
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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Pushing the envelope
Columbia Journalism Review
People don’t typically welcome television crews to burials. But recently, in Donbas, Ukraine, a distraught father invited journalists from Vice News to document the funeral of his eleven-year-old daughter, who, along with her pregnant mother and a reported fifty-seven others, had been killed by a Russian missile strike in Kramatorsk while trying to flee to safety. The father didn’t have anyone close to him at the graveside, and he wanted the journalists to show the world the misery Putin had wrought.
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The New York Times reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein story share advice for student journalists
Poynter
As she was chipping away at a story about decades of rape and sexual allegations against Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein, New York Times investigative reporter Jodi Kantor found herself fine-tuning what she would say to famous actresses when she called them to share their stories on the record.
Even with two decades of journalism experience, Kantor would slip into the bathroom at the Times building to practice. “What do I want to say?” she asked herself.
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Have the dangers of social media been overstated?
Columbia Journalism Review
ON APRIL 11, The Atlantic published an essay by Jonathan Haidt titled “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.” In the piece, Haidt—a social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business and the coauthor of a book called The Coddling of the American Mind — argued that social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have constructed a modern-day Tower of Babel.
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5 reasons why millennials are choosing freelancing over 9 to 5 jobs
The Good Men Project
Millennials are also known as Generation Y, the generation that enjoys simple lives. They have seen the major transformation from 2G networks to 5G and watching WWF to Xbox. The last generation who understands the pain of tangled phone cord wires is also the first who knows the luxury of having mobile phones.
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'They keep threatening to arrest us.' The obstacles facing local news in Uvalde
Poynter
By now, many who have been following this story know that the official narrative of the tragedy that left 19 students and two teachers dead has shifted, with early accounts being amended or retracted.
The San Antonio Express-News on Thursday published a timeline detailing the series of mistakes and deviations from original reports that officials made following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
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