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Time is running out to register for ASJA’s Washington, D.C., conference “A Capital Event,” on Nov. 8. Learn more about launching/expanding your business, marketing your work, applying for grants and fellowships, expanding your article into a book and so much more. ASJA members also will get the chance to meet with industry representatives who want to hire freelance writers. Register now!
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Politics and Prose is partnering with ASJA to sell books during the conference in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 8! We're looking for a few volunteers and their smartphones to sell books during the event. In return, you'll get a small conference discount. Email Christy Lyons at Christylyons1@mac.com for information about shifts and to volunteer.
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Membership is the spine of ASJA, and we're looking for someone smart and dedicated to head our membership efforts, which include renewals, recruitment, and benefits, with a team of dedicated and experienced volunteers. Read all about the job here. Interested? Email Laura Laing at lelaing@gmail.com.
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The rapid rise in the use of smartphones in newsrooms has been beneficial for reporters, from cutting costs to giving the ability to report live from anywhere in the world without as many logistical challenges.
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Thrive Global
According to the 2019 Deloitte Millennial Survey, 49% of millennials would quit their job in about two years of joining. Among the many reasons contributing to dissatisfaction at work, lack of appreciation, and low pay are two significant reasons why we are known as the “job-hopping” generation.
If you too are unsatisfied with your current work, then instead of hunting for a new employer, you should consider becoming a freelancer.
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Last year in an online discussion of what journalism students should know about using social media professionally, one journalist commented: “Delete all your tweets, start fresh, and send every tweet as if it’ll be broadcast on television one day. Make your Instagram private. Seriously. One bad tweet could forever muddy your career as an arbiter of unbiased facts.”
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Cari Wade Gervin had a story that needed to be reported, and nobody else was going to do it.
After two decades working in journalism, she had lost her job at a Tennessee alt-weekly in 2018 and turned to freelancing. She had found a story that involved the office of the state’s speaker of the house apparently faking an email in order to get the bond of an activist (who’d been arrested for protesting) suspended. “I pitched it, and no one wanted the story.
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Flexibility has become the No. 1 priority for workers today as advances in technology make it more challenging than ever to maintain a work-life balance.
In fact, a recent survey by online job platform FlexJobs revealed that 71% of millennials have considered leaving a job because it did not offer flexible work arrangements. And of those polled, 28% said they actually would be willing to give up vacation time in exchange for more flexibility or remote work options.
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