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By Sandra Gurvis
Unlike most journalists, ASJA member Julie Patrick-Barnhill puts the cart before the horse; that is, her speaking platform drives her writing rather than the other way around. Early in her career, her talks on motherhood and anger resulted in the explosively successful She's Gonna Blow! Real Help for Moms Dealing with Anger, which along with her 10 other titles has sold a cumulative total of over 200,000 copies. Mother of three grown children, she found their toddler years especially tough, particularly since the first two were only 21 months apart. "I was having dark thoughts and couldn’t find anyone to talk to about it," she recalls. Being part of the Christian community added to the challenge in some regards. "This was before every parent on the planet had a Facebook wall or blog. And it was long before Christian women felt they could talk openly about such struggles and failures, making it even harder for moms to be honest with each other."
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ASJA
Last Tuesday, ASJA board members discussed the current state of ASJA. Interested in hearing what they had to say? You can watch the webinar here.
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The National Center on Disability
The Schneider Award, now in its fifth year, is the only journalism contest focused exclusively on disability coverage. Journalists working in digital, print and broadcast media are eligible to enter. Entries are accepted from outside the U.S., although the work submitted must be in English.
The application deadline is July 31, 2017, and entries must have been published or aired between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2017. The online application and additional information are available at http://ncdj.org/contest/.
Awards are given to individuals or teams, with prizes of $5,000 for first place, $1,500 for second place and $500 for third place. Judges also may award honorable mentions.
In 2016, the top NCDJ Schneider award went to Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Chris Serres for "A Matter of Dignity,” an investigation into the segregation and neglect of hundreds of Minnesotans who are part of a system of state-subsidized sheltered workshops for people with disabilities. Second place went to WAMU 88.5, the NPR station in Washington, D.C., and third place was awarded to ProPublica. Judges also gave an honorable mention to Business World in New Delhi, the first international news outlet to be honored in the contest.
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The Content Standard by Skyword
I'm mostly an extrovert, so I get excited about meeting new people and connecting with colleagues at conferences and other industry events. I look forward to conversations with those who get what I do, share the same pain points, and even more so, the opportunity to meet with others who may even become potential clients. However, not everyone feels the same way.
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Poynter
How do you conduct interviews when you're not face-to-face? Phone and scribbled notes? In-app recording? This week, we explore another way to connect when you're far away.
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CNET
"The gig economy is now estimated to be about 34 percent of the workforce and expected to be 43 percent by the year 2020," Intuit CEO Brad Smith told CNN in May.
Smith was talking about freelancers who sell their services by the hour, by the day, or by the job; and who might work from home, in an office, or at customer work sites.
Freelancers come in all shapes and sizes.
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Journalism.co.uk
Interviewees are less intimidated by smaller, hand-held equipment and more likely to approach reporters with smartphones rather than a big TV crew, the latest research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has found.
In "Closer to the Story? Accessibility and Mobile Journalism," published on July 14, Finnish journalist Panu Karhunen carried out a two-part investigation to see how mobile journalism affects accessibility, asking whether journalists can get closer to the story and the subject using mobile technology.
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