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ASJA
You can register on-site Nov. 5 for ASJA Dream Bold Atlanta (#ASJAatl), a one-day conference at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where freelance writers will have an opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors and content providers. Keynote speaker and international bestselling author Robert Hicks will debut his new book: The Orphan Mother.
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By Michele Turk, The Word
While reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s latest book, “Big Magic,” on a cold winter night, I came across a story about a missed opportunity. I was planning to attend, but not participate in, a local “Pitch It” contest a week or so later, and reading this particular anecdote — about an idea that became someone else’s book — prompted me to enter the contest.
The next day, I emailed the woman running the contest. She asked if I had written a query yet.
“Yes, two years ago,” I admitted.
“It doesn’t matter if you’ve procrastinated,” she said “It’s what you do today that counts — YOLO! Make a commitment to yourself and the story.”
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The New York Times
The New York City Council voted unanimously to give freelance workers a set of protections against wage theft that are believed to be the first of their kind in the country.
Known as the Freelance Isn’t Free Act, the measure requires anyone hiring a freelance worker to agree in writing to a timetable and procedure for payment, and increases the potential awards to freelancers bringing legal complaints against those who have failed to pay them promptly.
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Forbes
As a freelancer, you work with different clients and you charge them rates you feel pretty good about. You do a set amount of work, you hand it over, and you get paid. Life is good. Well, it’s usually good.
However, there always seems to be that one client who manages to get something extra for your normal rate. If you’ve been ignoring it, that’s a mistake. Your time is precious, so you need to identify these three times when to ask a client for more money and how to do it right.
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Poynter.
Whether you're covering the news or reading, watching or hearing it, the credibility of your sources is key to evaluating the information. Do you trust the sources? Are there enough sources? Enough knowledgeable sources? Are all the questions answered? Is the news credible enough?
Here are questions you should ask in evaluating the sources used in information you read, see and hear.
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The WRITER
Attending a writing conference can be a learning opportunity for both new writers and seasoned professionals. Brushing up on craft, networking with fellow wordsmiths and hearing the stories of published authors provide a well-rounded and informed approach to business.
One of the most anticipated and nerve-wracking components of a conference is meeting literary agents. Often considered the gatekeepers to the publishing world, agents hold an almost mystic position on the journey to being published.
When the chance to come face to face with an agent arises, it’s important to keep cool. After all, they’re people, too. And they’re there to do a job.
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The Content Standard by Skyword
I’m a writer, and I boost my business via video.
Wait, what? If you’re a writer, and want to be hired as a writer, shouldn’t you do your marketing via written word? After all, that’s how people are going to judge whether you’re good enough, right?
Well, yes. And I do use the written word a lot. But, I was having a little trouble getting traffic to my site and booking business. To solve that problem, I joined a business coaching program, but a colleague in my city’s entrepreneur network suggested something a little radical: YouTube.
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Fast Company
"We had gunfire in our Harlem neighborhood. We have daily gunfire here, but it's from hunters and gun enthusiasts," explains Hans Hageman, a creative marketing consultant and strategist. A New York native who remembers an earlier, grittier incarnation of the city, he's doing today what would have been hard to conceive of earlier in his career — living in a rural area and working for himself.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Journalists across the country are assessing the fallout a week after a North Carolina jury awarded nearly $6 million in libel verdicts against The Raleigh News & Observer and one of its reporters.
The case seems to provide more evidence that the growing unpopularity of media may translate into less-sympathetic jury pools when news organizations face lawsuits. Adding to worries among newsroom leaders are the ways outsiders, including jurors on the N&O case, interpret internal communications among reporters, sources, and editors.
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Quartz
Unlike its physical world ancestor, online publishing fails to reward investments in production and content quality. We urgently need to reconsider the error.
Today, the economic value of a journalism item stems from its popularity, i.e. the number of clicks it generates. A well-crafted listicle put together by a clever millennial will generate more revenue that any public-interest piece, in total disregard for who actually reads it, for how long, etc. That’s the absurdity in today’s system.
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