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If you haven't checked out this ASJA member benefit than you are missing out. The latest podcasts showcase James Taranto's advice on how to get into the Wall Street Journal op-ed section, and ASJA member, Anna Goldfarb provides insight on how she became a regular contributor for the New York Times' Smarter Living column. Go to http://asja.org/ASJADirect for the podcasts, interviews and more.
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A few weeks ago I was invited to a “Facebook Community Boost” held in Columbus in early August. This three-day event focused on how small and medium-sized businesses could best utilize social media, specifically Facebook and Instagram, which Facebook purchased in 2012. While Facebook claims that nearly 1 billion people access their Instagram accounts on a monthly basis and 80 percent of accounts follow businesses on Instagram, a mere 25+ million business profiles are on the photo-sharing service, with only 2 million who actually use it. Still that’s a lot of potential exposure, which is why I eagerly tucked into the session titled “Instagram 101: A Beginner’s Guide for Business.”
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First-come, first-served registration begins Aug. 30 at noon Eastern. Professional members, this is your chance to pitch The Open Notebook during Virtual Pitch Slam. (Associate Members may listen to the recording of the event shortly afterwards)
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If you've been thinking to yourself, "Self, how do I get more involved in ASJA?" we've got your answer: sign up to lead a Special Interest Group (SIG). SIGs are small (up to 12 people) private groups that meet on a special section of the forum to discuss a particular topic for four weeks. Past SIGs have included six-figuring freelancing, travel, content marketing, history writing, corporate writing and more.
Future SIGs will include...well, that's where you come in! SIG wrangler Kate Silver is open to your ideas and is looking for leaders for the next session, which begins Oct. 22. To be a good SIG leader, you need to be willing to dedicate time, lead and contribute to discussions and share your own expertise. To get involved, email Kate at thekatesilver@gmail.com.
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Can a Writer Get a Break?
It’s the Way of the World
Writer's Digest
The newspaper, magazine or web editor loves the freelance article you submitted and says “Yes!” Before you jump up and down and share the news to your 10,000 social media friends, beware the worst that has happened to more than one freelance writer:
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The WRITER
I was assigned this article four months before its deadline. "Aw, that's plenty of time," I thought to myself.
No points for guessing what eventually happened: The deadline was around the corner before I knew it, and my plans to research, write, and file early had been foiled by my next-level procrastination skills.
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Poynter
After decades of declining trust in the press, coupled with relentless rhetorical attacks on the media by President Donald Trump, there’s finally some good news: Trust in media is up since last year, and the great majority of Americans trust their local news sources.
The new Poynter Media Trust Survey found 76 percent of Americans across the political spectrum have “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust in their local television news, and 73 percent have confidence in local newspapers.
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Quartz
A fellow freelancer once told me she got an angry phone call from a client after sending an invoice for the previously agreed-upon rate. Apparently, the client didn’t expect her to actually bill for so much — because it was ridiculous for someone who was, as he put it, “just a housewife” to bill at those rates. Another freelancer told me she had a client discontinue working with her, with no notice, as soon as he found out she was pregnant.
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Voices
The tumult would spread to every newspaper in the industry, but it began with whispers within the confined spaces of the women’s bathrooms and during off-the-cuff coffee chats at the Wall Street Journal in late 2015.
As Elva Ramirez began speaking to other women at the Journal about their salaries, they discovered a startling pattern — for the exact same roles, they often made many thousands less than their male counterparts.
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