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By Mickey Goodman
Why did I join ASJA nearly 10 years ago? Let me count the ways. First: The prestige of becoming a member of the oldest (and best) organization of non-fiction writers in the U.S. Second: The opportunity to meet writers whose articles and books I greatly admire. Third: Client Connections.
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Poynter.
Documents add detail and confirm newsworthy information in your reporting process. These records might include anything from a photograph to a computer hard drive to internal documents belonging to a company or government entity.
When you come into possession of such items, you should know what legal issues you could face if you access, retain or use those materials. Here are a few ways to minimize your risk of a lawsuit or criminal prosecution when acquiring documents and other property for news-gathering purposes.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Creative types are unshackling themselves from the 9-5 corporate grind in search of professional independence. Among the usual suspects are graphic designers, copywriters, PR and marketing types, web developers, journalists, filmmakers, editors, illustrators and videographers. For these professionally independent creatives, it's both a blessing and a curse that they're the only one responsible for finding work, meeting deadlines and keeping themselves on track.
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Pontiac Daily Leader
Thanks to the Internet, you can get plenty of help with your prose without leaving your keyboard. These seven sites are some of the best writing tools out there today. Why not try them out?
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Columbia Journalism Review
Terrorism relies on the spread of fear, so any publicity — from journalists or otherwise — threatens to play into its aims. The ability of terrorists to disseminate information and recruit has only gotten more powerful with the rise of social media. In the past month, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism has published three reports on how journalism should cover terrorism.
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Creative Boom
You might be offering graphic design services or a wealth of other freelancing support, but none of that really matters unless you can sell yourself and be someone people enjoy working with. Business is about people, after all. To succeed, you have to be likeable, professional and appealing.
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Tech2
Working as a freelancer is an exciting prospect, but it brings a host of responsibilities in order to ensure productive deliverables. When you work as a freelancer, you don multiple hats across all aspects of your business. This can range from creating business plans and strategy, to product design and service deliverables, all the way through to ensuring a stellar customer experience.
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Poynter.
When words and images compete, pictures win and your viewers misunderstand your story. But when words, images and audio work together, you give your story greater power and meaning.
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App Developer Magazine
In this day and age, to not need a secured biweekly salary of a 9-5 job is akin to winning the career lottery. Well, it may not be quite as rare, given that there are currently 53 million Americans who are currently freelancers, which represent just 34 percent of the total U.S. labor force, but one can say this is indeed the dream of most Americans in the labor force.
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