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Mark your calendars! Registration for the next session of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) runs from Sept. 8 until Sept. 16. Check out the SIG website to see what we're offering for this session. SIGs officially begin Sept. 21 and registration is first-come, first-served.
Special Interest Groups, or SIGs, are small (up to 12 people) private groups that meet on a special section of the forum to discuss a particular topic. SIGs last four weeks and are an in-depth guided learning experience for all who participate. Email Jen at jenniferjoanbillock@gmail.com with any questions.
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ASJA is in search of a volunteer with savvy social media skills to manage and oversee all of the organization's platforms. This is a great job for someone with experience managing social media messaging for organizations. Interested? Want more information? Please contact Laura Laing at lelaing@gmail.com.
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Call for pitches! Want to write for your peers? ASJA magazine is looking for fresh ideas and voices. If you have an idea for a story about the business or lifestyle of writing, please send a pitch to editor Stephanie Vozza at asjamagazineeditor@gmailcom. ASJA pays for articles! Especially looking for topics on ways to be more productive.
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Reviews of the ASJA Virtual Conference are coming in, and people are raving. ASJA member Megy Karydes attended the “Expand Your Portfolio: Writing for Non-Mainstream Media” workshop and said speaker Lottie Joiner knocked it out of the park. “I’m embarrassed to admit that sometimes I multitask during webinars, but (she) had me hooked throughout the entire session today.” Member LM Archer had a similar comment about the content marketing track: “Great peek behind the curtain of content marketing, to better understand how to help editors by adding value.”
If you’re regretting missing any of our sessions, it’s not too late! You can purchase registration for individual sessions, individual tracks, or the entire conference! With a full registration, you’ll get recordings of all of the past sessions. With a track registration, you’ll get all of the recordings for that track.
Meanwhile, the book track begins this week. Get more details about the conference and tracks, and register here!
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April may seem like a long way off but not when you're planning a conference! ASJA 2021's co-chairs and committee are soliciting proposals for sessions and workshops at our annual conference (April 18-19, 2021).
Have an idea for a session or workshop? Please fill out this form by Oct. 1, 2020. Decisions about acceptances will be made by early December. We are especially interested in submissions that promote diversity and are interactive. Questions? Contact ASJA 2021 co-chair Kristine Hansen at kristinehansenwriter@gmail.com.
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Nearly 75 ASJA members volunteered their time to judge 500 entries, bringing attention to journalists doing the hard work of reporting and writing on a constantly changing, confusing, complex topic.
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Another new group of applicants for membership in ASJA has passed the Membership Application Committee's review and the list of prospective members has now been posted. Active members may review the list and send any comments to James Cafiero no later than Aug. 31. All comments will be sent to the Application Committee for consideration and will be kept confidential.
Writer's Digest
A true crime book is the arm's length and safe distance by which reader and murder are separated. Psychologists have theorized that audiences, women, in particular, have been captivated by the genre as a form of self-preservation against their fears of violence and predation. Others, like the type of person who enjoys cardboard witches in a haunted house attraction, equate feelings of anxiety with excitement when put in a controlled setting.
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International Journalists' Network
In the COVID era, many of us have had to adapt to new ways of doing things. Working from home and distributed newsrooms have become part of the “new normal” for many journalists. This has often meant modifying not just what we do, but how we do it. At many journalism schools we tend to drill into our students the importance of conducting interviews in person, but that’s just not possible right now, and it might not be for some time.
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Business Insider
The ups and downs of freelancing might seem like a treacherous path to success, but these freelancers found a way to combine their passions with consistent work — and now make five to six figures doing it.
Whether it's the exact emails they sent to their first paying clients or the freelancing platforms and tech they used to get going, they share candid advice about their journey and recommendations on getting started.
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Columbia Journalism Review
If you've been a journalist for long enough, you’ve probably gotten at least a few requests from aspiring writers asking to pick your brain about how you’ve made your living in the industry.
Seattle-based food writer Naomi Tomky gets a lot of these requests from pastry chefs and line cooks. Many of them have recently been laid off; some are simply tired of the physical toll that restaurant work has taken on their bodies. They don’t necessarily know how freelance writing works, but they have ideas and want to write about food.
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