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Jodi Helmer, ASJA
 You don’t like to be rejected — no one does. But it’s part of being a freelance writer. And when you send more than five queries a week, rejection happens. A lot.
Turns out there are five common reasons that editors are passing on your ideas. Head these off at the pass, and you’re likely to see more yeses than nos.
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SPJ (Society of Professional Journalists)/ASJA (American Society of Journalists and Authors)
 At the SPJ/ASJA event Moving Forward: How To Survive In & After Journalism, on November 7th, writer/entrepreneur and ASJA Board Member Damon Brown explained how he, and all media, have evolved beyond what would be traditionally considered journalism and why journalists are needed more than ever.
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The Wall Street Journal
The December issue of Details magazine will be its last, making the men’s fashion title the latest casualty of the declining print advertising market.
Bob Sauerberg, president of Condé Nast, which owns Details, announced the closure to staff.
It’s expected that GQ, Condé Nast’s other men’s fashion magazine, will increase the frequency of its twice-a-year GQ Style publication in a bid to retain the fashion designers that currently advertise in Details.
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Publishers Weekly
The winners of the 66th National Book Awards were announced at New York City’s Cipriani Downtown. Winners included Adam Johnson (Fiction), Ta-Nehisi Coates (Nonfiction), Robin Coste Lewis (Poetry), and Neal Shusterman (Young People’s Literature).
Receiving the Fiction award for Fortune Smiles (Random House), Pulitzer Prize winner Johnson admitted to having found notes from serving on the panel of last year’s National Book Awards in his tuxedo. He said that the panel allowed him to read books he might have never read, before thanking his family.
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Chronicle Live
Internet fans’ forums are not a place for the faint-hearted, but the pros far outweigh the cons for journalists with a direct interest.
They can offer a regular supply of leads for stories and an instant audience for articles.
With an army of Newcastle Falcons supporters scouring the internet for snippets about the club, they are often the first to unearth nuggets which can blow into bigger stories.
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International Journalists' Network
“The worst practice that journalists are doing with their security is relying on third parties that they don't control, that they shouldn’t depend on, to protect their privacy,” said Micah Lee, an expert on source protection and cryptography, at a recent privacy conference in San Francisco held to celebrate Aaron Swartz Day. Lee, who works at The Intercept, teaches people like Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald and other reporters how to use state-of-the-art security measures when dealing with sensitive information.
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Miami Herald
When Random House agreed to publish Achy Obejas’ Days of Awe — a novel that in part addresses the loss of Jewish identity during the Spanish Inquisition and the Cuban diaspora — the publishing house paid a handsome six-figure advance that the author says enabled her to “buy a house, buy a car, pay off my debts.”
That was 2001, and less than a decade later she would accept a $1,000 advance for her next novel. Such are the joys of being published by a small press.
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The Wall Street Journal
The next time you see an article about a company or product, consider this: it’s possible the author heard about it through a Facebook ad.
Marketers, public relations companies and advertising agencies are increasingly using social media to carefully place messages in front of journalists and media professionals, in the hope that doing so will “earn” them or their clients coverage, or at least keep them top-of-mind for a mention.
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Refinery 29
Maziar Bahari considers himself lucky.
That may be an understatement for the Iranian-Canadian journalist, who — only six years ago — spent 118 days surviving physical and psychological torture in Iran’s notoriously brutal Evin Prison in Tehran.
Bahari — who covered Iran for a decade as a Newsweek correspondent — was on the ground in 2009, when the reelection of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparked allegations of election fraud and widespread protests.
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