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Nothing is simple about LinkedIn. Founded in 2003 by four former workers from PayPal and the now-defunct SocialNet, it got off to a somewhat slow start, went through numerous iterations and reorganizations to become a networking behemoth with over 560 million users worldwide, including 146 million in the US. Among certain quarters, especially in the 9-to-5 world and for recent college graduates, it is considered the ne plus ultra in hoisting oneself up the corporate ladder. Numerous books have been written about how to best utilize it; magazine articles and blogs also offer a wide variety of sometimes contradictory information and advice, due in no small part due to the social network’s continuous tweaking and policy changes. Over the past couple of years, LinkedIn has hardly endeared itself to freelancers, including many ASJA members.
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The McGraw Center for Business Journalism
Got a great idea for a high-impact story on a business or economic topic, but no funds to get it done? Applications are now open for the Winter 2019 McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, an initiative of the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. The McGraw Fellowships provide up to $15,000 and editorial support for experienced journalists to produce deeply-reported investigative or enterprise stories on important economic, financial or business topics. No residency is required; McGraw Fellows work from their own offices. Open to freelance journalists, as well as staff reporters and editors working at news organizations. Five years professional journalism experience is needed. The upcoming deadline for Winter 2019 Fellowship applications is Jan. 4, 2019; Summer 2019 applications will be due June 28. Questions? Contact us at mcgrawcenter@journalism.cuny.edu.
Business 2 Community
For freelance writers, the ability to be able to write quality and engaging content efficiently is their bread and butter. While some clients will assign topics, others will ask you to pitch topics and come up with your own content ideas.
This can be both a blessing and a curse. When you’re facing writer’s block, it can be difficult to come up with unique content ideas. Plus, most writers don’t get paid for time spent brainstorming topics so this is a task you want to do quickly.
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Entrepreneur
Anyone who has left a regular salary for the gig life knows this: Suddenly you need a crash course in (yikes — cash flow? marketing?) just about everything. “Freelancers wear a lot of hats and are always looking to how they can get a leg up,” said Wade Foster, who works with a lot of them through Zapier, the tool he cofounded that lets you connect your apps and automate workflow every which time-zapping way.
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TIME
A new report has found that journalists face more danger than at any other time over the past 10 years, with 78 journalists killed and a further 326 imprisoned while doing their job or for their work in 2017.
Article 19, a U.K.-based human rights NGO working to advance freedom of expression and information, released the report recently showing that journalists around the world have faced a substantial increase in physical and verbal attacks compared to previous years.
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Writer's Digest
I wear many different hats: physician, mother, wife, friend and daughter. Like many of us I know, my patients at work or my friends at home or those I read about or heard about, multitasking is a way of life.
Little did I know years ago that making a loaf of bread one Friday morning, a loaf of white bread at that (cue the gasp from the physician in me), would end up being the best medicine that I could prescribe for myself, and ultimately for others trying to live in this fast-paced world.
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Nieman Lab
Journalists are overwhelmed by the information they process in their working day and want to explore solutions with third-party providers and management to make it more manageable. That’s the finding of a nine-month project involving discussions across the industry and a revealing in-depth survey.
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