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ASJA
 The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), the leading professional organization of independent nonfiction writers, announced its new officers and Board of Directors. ASJA directors typically serve three-year terms and officers serve one-year, renewable terms.
Sherry Beck Paprocki, president of R.S. Rock Media, will serve as ASJA Board President. Paprocki is an award-winning journalist, author and editor who produces digital and print products for traditional media companies, nonprofits and private clients. She is the author of Martha Stewart: Lifestyle Entrepreneur, Oprah Winfrey: Talk Show Host and Media Magnate and many others, as well as co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Branding Yourself, "With the support of the ASJA Board of Directors and all of our members, I'm honored to have the opportunity to further cement the association as the leading voice of the independent, nonfiction writing industry and its interests," said Paprocki.
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Debbie Blumberg, ASJA
 Last month, the board approved a Texas chapter, which became the 15th local ASJA chapter. From Houston to Austin to San Antonio to Dallas, we’re 28 members strong across the Lone Star state. Most of us work full-time, and we’ve freelanced for more than 10 years. More than half of us write non-fiction books and also dabble in content marketing or copywriting. One of us specializes in ranch, farm and equine journalism.
As recent Texas transplants, my co-president, Susan Johnston Taylor, and I wanted to start a Texas chapter because we’re keen to make connections and build a writing community down south. Susan moved to Austin from the West Coast this spring, and I’m headed back to Houston (where I grew up) from Brooklyn in August.
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ASJA
 On Saturday, Nov. 5, join ASJA Dream Bold Atlanta (#DreamBoldATL), a one-day conference at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where ASJAers will have an opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors, content providers and agents.
Keynoter and international bestselling author Robert Hicks will debut his new book: The Orphan Mother.
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Poynter
Pitching a story is a particularly important skill in broadcast, because air time is so precious. Pitches need to prod, pique and provoke. You need to make it impossible for an editor or producer to say no. And if you're a freelancer , pitching is an essential skill. Getting good at pitching has an unexpected, high-impact side effect: It helps you find a story focus early in the writing process. With a strong focus, reporting and writing become easier, faster and more effective.
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RJI
If you operate a nonprofit newsroom, email appeals have likely become an essential fundraising tool. Yet while recommendations for how to grow your mailing lists are readily available, it's much harder to find good information about retaining subscribers and engaging them as active community members. As a result, many successful efforts to gain subscribers are followed swiftly by flurries of unsubscribes or high spam ratings.
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The Muse
You just fired off a quick email response to a hiring manager and strutted away from your computer feeling self-assured — you just know she's going to love your little joke about the upcoming weekend.
A few moments later, you return to reread your message and double-check what you had written (and, of course, to marvel at your own sense of humor one more time).
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The New York Times
Alan Murray, the editor of Fortune, will succeed Norman Pearlstine as Time Inc.'s chief content officer, part of a broad reorganization of the company as it shifts its focus away from its stable of print magazines. Pearlstine, a former editor in chief of Time Inc. who returned in 2013 after working at Bloomberg, will stay on at the company as its vice chairman, the company said.
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Media Shift
Snapchat is no longer just a private messaging tool for kids. Snapchat is a news platform, and it's a platform for more than just the 20 media companies with precious spots in Discover, Snapchat's dedicated professional media channel. Media companies big and small are using the Snapchat Stories feature, which allows you to create longer videos by piecing together photos and individual videos, each up to 10 seconds long.
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Publishers Weekly
The revival of print book sales continued into the first half of 2016. Unit sales of print books rose 6 percent in the six-month period ended July 3, over the first six months of 2015, at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. The gain follows a roughly 3 percent annual increase in print unit sales last year at outlets that report to BookScan, which captures about 80 percent of all print sales.
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Media Life
The newspaper industry's troubles have been well documented, but it turns out that global readership is actually on the rise.
Global newspaper circulation increased by 4.9 percent in 2015, according to a report from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, with more than 2.7 billion adults reading newspapers in print globally.
The circulation growth was driven by Asia, which saw circulation rise 7.8 percent.
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MIT Technology Review
Back in 1995, Kurt Vonnegut gave a lecture in which he described his theory about the shapes of stories. In the process, he plotted several examples on a blackboard. "There is no reason why the simple shapes of stories can't be fed into computers," he said. "They are beautiful shapes."
Vonnegut was representing in graphical form an idea that writers have explored for centuries — that stories follow emotional arcs, that these arcs can have different shapes, and that some shapes are better suited to storytelling than others.
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