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MEMBER-EXCLUSIVE NEWS
Hello! If you haven’t done so yet, VOTE! (Maybe take a snack.) And, um, may the odds be ever in your favor?
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Share Your Favorite ASJA Story!
ASJA
The 2020 Fall Membership Drive is underway, and the membership committee is eager to share your favorite stories. Have you landed a great client? Made fantastic connections? Does a particular memory stand out?
Please share! We'll confirm your story with you and permission to share after you submit. Here's the simple Google form.
If you have any questions, please contact Carolyn Crist, ASJA Membership Chair at crist.carolyn@gmail.com.
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Let's Get Virtual
ASJA
ASJA president Laura Laing says: All signs point to another pandemic peak — a second or a third, depending on how you’re counting. That’s terrible news, of course, and it signals that this “new normal” that the scientists were touting nine months ago is a reality. This week, I purchased a standing desk and a walking treadmill, because I won’t be getting back to normal exercise for a while. I’m about to cut out and sew another collection of cloth masks. And, following a successful 2020 virtual conference and in the best interests of everyone’s good health, ASJA just announced that our 2021 annual conference will be virtual.
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ASJA 2021 Conference Officially Goes Virtual — Propose Sessions!
ASJA
The ASJA Board of Directors last week announced the decision to make the 2021 ASJA Conference a virtual event. The committee credited the success of the 2020 Virtual Conference with helping them to make the decision to move next year’s conference online. “Thanks in part to the overwhelming response to the ASJA 2020 virtual conference, leadership was able to make the decision now instead of continuing to monitor the situation,” the announcement read.
As planning is in the early stages, the deadline to propose sessions has been extended until Nov. 1. Please use this form to suggest ideas. The committee is especially looking for interactive approaches and diverse voices.
Please contact ASJA 2021 co-chair Kristine Hansen at kristinehansenwriter@gmail.com with questions or concerns, or to volunteer. If you deferred your 2020 registration to 2021, you will be contacted in the next few weeks.
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Crisis Coverage Award Winners Panel: Learn from the Best
ASJA
Four winners of ASJA’s Crisis Coverage Awards: COVID-19 Edition will discuss how they pitched, reported, and wrote their complex and inspiring stories about the constantly changing pandemic. Q&A to follow. This webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 18 from 3 - 4:30 pm Eastern and is free for ASJA members or Crisis Coverage Award entrants, $20 for guests. Please contact asjaoffice@asja.org if you participated in the awards and did not receive a discount code via email. Register here today!
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In Memoriam: Juli Cragg Hilliard
ASJA
Deepest sympathies to the family and friends of ASJA member Juli Cragg Hilliard, 62, of Florida, who passed away October 18. She is survived by her husband and two daughters, her parents, two brothers and two sisters. Many ASJA members met Juli at our conference over the years, also through Freelance Success membership, and had gotten to know her. Jennifer Nelson, ASJA publications chair, said, "She was a lovely woman, always with a radiant smile and positive energy." Further remembrances and opportunities for tributes will be forthcoming on the ASJA website, magazine and Facebook page.
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Prospective New Members Listed
ASJA
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 next Monday. All comments will be sent to the Application Committee for consideration and will be kept confidential.
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Member News
ASJA
JoAnna Haugen recently launched Responsible Travel Writing: A Course for Content Creators through her brand Rooted. The self-paced course is the first of its kind. Haugen, a writer, speaker, and solutions advocate, also contributed a chapter to the recently published book, Advice from the Ocean. Fifty percent of royalties support marine conservation efforts.
Mary L. Peachin, author/travel writer/photographer, recently published “Sleeping Around...Challenging My Comfort Zone” now available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Read her adventures at http://www.peachin.com
Do you have professional news you’d like to share with the group? A new job, a story you’ve published (in article, blog post, book, cave painting, etc. form), a new project you’ve launched, an interview with someone fascinating, a speaking gig? We’re launching a new Member News section in the weekly. Send your news (25 words or less) and a link if applicable to Holly Leber Simmons, ASJA Weekly Editor at hello@redpeneditorial.co (that’s .co like Coco Chanel). Space will be limited.
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How Simple Storytelling Techniques Can Make You a Better Writer
Journalism.co.uk
I do not have many skills in life. Do not ask me to fix your car, or put up a shelf. But there is one thing I do know: how to tell a story.
I started out as a feature writer, working first in magazines then newspapers and now, primarily, online but, while the platform has evolved, one thing has never changed: people love to read about people.
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Americans Blame Unfair News Coverage on Media Outlets, Not the Journalists Who Work for Them
Pew Research Center
The November general election is rapidly approaching, with debates raging over how fairly news outlets are covering the candidates and important issues. Survey data from earlier this year shows that most Americans think news coverage in their country is one-sided, but they fault media organizations themselves much more than the journalists who work for them.
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What Is a Freelance Agency, and How Can I Build One?
Entrepreneur
Building a freelance agency might appeal to you if you are making the decision between a business that relies on you as the primary person to complete the work and one that instead relies on a team of subcontractors to help you deliver client projects.
Freelancers have to make an important decision on how they will run their business from the time they set it up.
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The Coronavirus Has Closed More Than 60 Local Newsrooms Across America. And Counting.
Poynter
In many places, it started with a cut in print days. Furloughs. Layoffs. Just to get through the crisis, newsroom leaders told readers.
In some places, none of it was enough.
Now, small newsrooms around the country, often more than 100 years old, often the only news source in those places, are closing under the weight of the coronavirus. Some report they’re merging with nearby publications.
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15 Things a Writer Should Never Do
Writer's Digest
Former Writer's Digest managing editor Zachary Petit shares his list of 15 things a writer should never do, based on interviews with successful authors as well as his own occasional literary forays and flails.
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