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ASJA
Happy New Year? In the middle of summer?
Fair question, explained because the American Society of Journalists and Authors operates on two different 12-month cycles, one for membership management (the Jan. 1-Dec. 31 calendar we all know well) and a second one for accounting and most other business activities (our fiscal year runs from July 1 through June 30).
New years — fiscal or otherwise — inevitably bring change.
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ASJA
We need mentors. You can help!
Have you got energy and experience to share? Are you looking for an opportunity to pay it forward? Why not consider serving as a mentor to an associate member?
Each month, ASJA welcomes new associates who want to fine-tune their skills, learn from more experienced writers and prepare to apply to become a professional member of ASJA. You can help them.
We've created two guidebooks for an eight-week commitment — one tailored to mentors and one to associates — to help you organize your discussions and keep your time commitment to a reasonable level. Interested? Intrigued? Ready to dive in? Contact Lori Ferguson, committee chair, or call (603) 566-6368. Thank you for considering!
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The ASJA member-only forums offer hot topics. Check them out:
Agent Query
Something on the Side?
Editorial Q
TaleFlick
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ASJA is excited to share a new and valuable member benefit! Because we know that working from home can sometimes get pretty lonely, we found you a deal with WeWork! Collaborative workspaces can be a great way for ASJA members to help get the creative juices flowing and now you can receive up to 20 percent off new WeWork memberships on office space. Click here to get more info directly from WeWork.
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 Shop on Amazon? ASJA members, family and friends now have an easy way to donate to ASJA Charitable Trust! Next time you’re ready to shop on Amazon, start your shopping session at the URL http://smile.amazon.com. Select American Society of Journalists and Authors Charitable Trust as your charity, and Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases! Ready to start shopping? Click here to default ASJACT as your charity of choice!
The Writer
We don’t need much to start a story. At the minimum, a blank surface and a writing instrument.
Now, we have more options to bring stories to life, but it’s certainly not the first time writers encountered the new and shiny. We once leapt from handwriting to using a manual – then electric — typewriter. Looking back, that doesn’t seem as drastic a change when you consider the speed at which the ways we create and consume content have evolved in just a decade.
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Business.com
As technology continues to advance, more people are abandoning their 9-to-5 office lives and converting to freelancing. It's a world of difference when you freelance, one that many picture as a relief from the everyday demands of regular jobs. Freelance writers set their own hours, work with clients they choose and charge the amount they believe is fair. They dabble in all kinds of work, including email marketing, copywriting, editing and more.
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Journalism.co.uk
LinkedIn is not just a useful social media platform for networking and finding your next job, it can also be a place where news content can flourish, according to Katie Carroll, managing editor, Daily News, Americas & UK at LinkedIn, speaking at Hacks/Hackers this week.
Now a platform with around 630 million members in more than 200 countries, LinkedIn started its editorial operations in 2011 as a way to help professionals stay on top of the latest, emerging trends and talking points.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Between 2013 and 2016, I worked as a reporter for The New York Observer. It was my first full-time job in journalism, there was little oversight, and I had no assigned beat. Because I was a relative greenhorn in the newsroom, I struggled to come up with story ideas. After a while, however, I found a groove: some of my favorite pieces, I realized, had started when I’d been annoyed by something — or, more accurately, noticing that I’d been annoyed by something and reporting out the feeling. (For better or worse, I am annoyed by a lot of things.)
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Poynter
It’s only August, but 2019 has already been a rough year because of layoffs in the news industry. In more Do-you-have-a-plan-B?-news, a new study from Pew Research shows that in 2018, slightly fewer papers had layoffs than in the year before, but a higher number had multiple rounds.
Pew’s report, which published Thursday, used “publicly reported instances of layoffs.” Researchers looked at 97 newspapers with Sunday circulation of 50,000 or more.
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