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ASJA
With WEAF, “our goal is to serve as a small safety net under our fellow writers who have an emergency need,” observes ASJA’s new vice-president Janine Latus, who also is WEAF’s new committee chair. “We can’t solve chronic problems, whether of health or career, but we can help each other out in a pinch.” Grants are available to both ASJA members and non-members, although non-members must have publishing credentials sufficient to qualify for any level of ASJA membership. But did you know that WEAF was originally called the Llewellyn Miller Fund?
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ASJA
Strong copyright stands shoulder-to-shoulder with freedom of expression. Ideas stolen equate to ideas suppressed, because many persons with good ideas would shrink from expressing them if they could not in some measure have their lives improved for doing so.
This is why the ASJA's 70th Anniversary Capital Campaign is so beneficial. It strengthens our bonds to free expression and to strong copyright. It builds up the apparatus for education, for mentoring, and for disseminating principles and skills that bolster vibrant free expression and dependable copyright. Have you contributed? Click here.
ASJA
Our next VCC will be held for Professional Members from Tuesday, July 31, to Friday, Aug. 3. First-come, first-served sign-ups will begin Tuesday, July 17, at 2 p.m. Eastern. Literary agent Annie Bomke has already signed up, as well as two other markets: CivilEats.com (think food-justice issues) and Christian Science Monitor (this particular editor wants science and environment pitches).
For more information about pay, pitch needs and more, click here.
Questions about VCC? Contact VCC Chair Kristine Hansen at kristinehansenwriter@gmail.com.
ASJA
Yes, another new group of applicants for ASJA has passed the Membership Application Committee's review, and the list of prospective members has now been posted. We invite active members to review the list and send any comments, pro or con, to the ASJA office at membership@asja.org no later than the comment deadline shown. Comments will be sent to the Application Committee for consideration. All comments will be kept confidential, for Application Committee use only. Review the list of prospective members here.
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Entrepreneur
With around 15 million Indians working as freelancers, the gig economy is already blooming at an outstanding speed. Despite the risks and no-security of job policy, these freelancers see no reason to stop and so more than 40 percent of the total freelancing works worldwide are acquired by Indians only.
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Poynter
The murder of five employees of an Annapolis, Maryland newspaper by a reader nursing a years-long grudge over a story on his criminal conviction for harassing a woman was a horrifying, extreme example of a harsh reality editors everywhere face every day: Some people get really, really angry about the news and it’s a daily slog to defuse that rage and educate the public on the vital role of the press in a free society.
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The WRITER
One of the first questions my editor at a national cruise magazine always asks is: “How are the pictures?” For him, good images are as important as a good story. In other words: No pictures, no sale.
Fortunately, I often have been able to take my own pictures to accompany my stories. Other times, I have known where to get the images I needed.
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Small Business Trends
One of the challenges of being a freelancer is making sure you have a steady stream of revenue. And in order to make this possible, you have to market yourself effectively to the customers you are trying to serve.
A new infographic by Fiverr titled, “Embrace the Power of the Internet to Get More Freelance Clients” points out five ways to do this.
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Columbia Journalism Review`
Even in the age of Trump, and with trust in journalists at historic lows, much of the industry remains convinced that it can triumph on truth-telling alone. But the problems are self-evident: News makers and consumers alike are overwhelmed with a constant frenzy of terrible news. For news producers, the questions feel urgent: Why are we telling the stories we tell, and whom do they serve? What ethics and values should govern our work? Should journalism, in short, take a lesson from activism?
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