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Long-term veteran ASJA Board of Directors member Minda Zetlin shares some under-the-hood thoughts about serving on the board.
What exactly does the ASJA Board do?
It’s more of a question of what we don’t do. Rather than rubber stamping things like some boards, we actively work towards finding solutions. Along with setting policies and managing ASJA’s finances, we address topics via statements and press releases and statements issued jointly with the ASJA’s First Amendment Committee. Read more
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Preview the regional ASJA conference taking place in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 3 with conference co-chairs Deborah Blumberg and Susan Johnston Taylor. Learn why you can’t afford to miss this Texas-style event with its emphasis on how to thrive as a freelance writer. Get the scoop on what makes the Texas writing scene special, get a few pre-conference tips on mindfulness for writers, and discover how each session will enhance and support your career. Learn more about editors attending Client Connections and get tips for making the most of those appointments and your time at this one-of-a-kind event.
That’s what we’ll talk about in this month’s “Shop Talk” event.
Join us:
Wednesday, Dec. 20
1 p.m. Eastern (calculate for your time zone)
Register here.
About our guest experts:
Deborah Lynn Blumberg (@dlblumberg) is a health and wellness and business and finance writer and editor with more than 15 years’ experience writing for publications including The Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and Barron’s. Her content marketing clients include the New York YMCA, Keller Williams, and JPMorgan Chase, where she previously worked in marketing and communications. She tells the stories of the people and companies that are changing our world for the better, and has a special interest in functional medicine. She's also working on her first novel, based on the true story of how her great grandparents saved a group of Austrian Jews from the Holocaust with the help of a world leader.
Susan Johnston Taylor (@UrbanMuseWriter) joined ASJA in 2009 and has written about personal finance, business, and lifestyle topics for The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, and U.S. News & World Report, among other publications. She's drawn to stories that offer readers new insights and practical ways to save money, advance their careers, or improve their lives.
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We promise our communities to build and improve their quality of life. Through educational programs, grants and scholarships we advance that cause. You will find our focus is on journalistic excellence and thriving communities. It’s our belief the free press is vital to all of our futures, and serving those around us, serves us all.
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If you’re planning on flying to Austin for Write in the Heart of Texas on Saturday, Feb. 3 now is the time to get your tickets! Delta Airlines is offering a discount: Just click the “Advanced Search” link on www.delta.com and enter NMPN3 in the box that says “Meeting Event Code.” If your flight qualifies for a discount, it will automatically be applied to your search results. To sign up for a great speaker and Client Connections lineup,
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Yes, another new group of applicants for ASJA has passed the Membership Application Committee's review and the list of prospective members has now been posted.
We invite active members to review the list and send any comments, pro or con, to the ASJA office at membership@asja.org no later than the comment deadline shown. Comments will be sent to the Application Committee for consideration. All comments will be kept confidential, for Application Committee use only.
Review the list of prospective members here.
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As you’ve no doubt heard, ASJA has established an exciting new category: associate membership. We’ve done this for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is to help younger writers get a much-needed foothold into the professional world of freelancing. But we’re also reaching out to people you know: staff editors. We are offering a waived initiation fee for staff editors who apply by Dec. 31 and use the code MI-CCE.
Why? Because we frequently hear from many editorial colleagues who want to make the leap into freelancing, whether as a part-time or a full-time proposition. But we also want a way to help members like you develop stronger relationships with editors like them.
The associate membership category for staff editors is a win-win scenario. Members like you get closer contact with staff editors. Staff editors have a way to augment their income or make the transition into freelancing. And let’s face it — when editors get laid off, what’s the first thing they do in the interim? Hang out a freelancing shingle. We’re going to help them do that. And if they apply by Dec. 31, they can have their initiation fee waived by using the code MI-JGG.
We’d like you to help us spread the word of this new membership option among your editors. What’s in it for you? You receive 25 percent off your ASJA dues for each new member who writes your name on the application. So spread the word! Your colleagues can find details on the new associate membership qualifications here.
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Do you have a topic aimed at professional writers and building their skills and their businesses? GWA: The Association for Garden Communicators has opened their call for speaker proposals for their 70th Annual Conference & Expo (#GWA2018) in Chicago, IL, August 13-16, and is looking for informative and interesting topics covering writing, business, publishing, social media and much more. Whether you are a garden communicator or just a professional writer, all proposals are welcome from GWA members and non-members alike. Deadline: Jan. 31, 2018. Learn more here.
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Looking to connect with another peer within ASJA? Need a mentor to offer you some tips or perhaps you want to mentor others? Maybe you want a buddy to help you stay accountable for your goals?
Check out the ASJA Peer-to-Peer program! In this informal program, you’ll be matched with another ASJA member based on common writing interests. For more information or to sign up, please contact Pamela DeLoatch at pamela@b2bstorytelling.com, using subject line: ASJA Peer to Peer.
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Applications are now open for the Winter 2018 McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, an initiative of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism designed to support ambitious coverage of critical issues related to U.S. economy and business. The McGraw Fellowships provide up to $15,000 and editorial support for experienced journalists to do the deep reporting needed to produce a significant investigative or enterprise business story. No residency is required; McGraw Fellows work from their own offices. Open to freelance journalists, as well as staff reporters and editors working at a news organization. Five years professional journalism experience is needed. The upcoming deadline for Winter 2018 Fellowship applications is December 15, 2017; Summer 2018 applications will be due June 30, 2018.
What kind of work do we support? Previous McGraw Fellows have worked on a wide range of topics, from What Would Jesus Disrupt? in Bloomberg Businessweek and Towns sell their water systems — and come to regret it in The Washington Post, to Who’s behind the Chinese takeover of the world’s biggest pork producer?, which ran on PBS NewsHour. The Albuquerque Journal published a more extensive multimedia package, Two Nations, One Aquifer: A series about water at the border.
If you’d like to join them, you’ll find more information on the Fellowships at bit.ly/2iqvn63. You can also contact us at mcgrawcenter@journalism.cuny.edu.
Past winners and honorees in the field of journalism include Ben Ehrenreich, Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller, Jill Leovy, Eli Saslow, Emily Steel, Michael S. Schmidt , Daniel Alarcón, Willow Bay, Jason Rezaian, Roxane Gay, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Chris Hedges, with work that has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, ProPublica, Los Angeles Times, The Marshall Report, TruthDig, and others.
Eligibility in brief:
- Open to all writers who live west of the Mississippi, regardless of the publisher’s location
- Writers and/or publishers may submit work
- Printed and online articles are eligible
- Content must be original and must have been published in 2017
The submission deadline for Journalism is Feb. 15, 2018.
Submission forms and complete eligibility guidelines here.
The Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Prize Board has expanded eligibility in its Breaking News reporting category.
Distinguished examples of local, state or national breaking news produced by any eligible news organization — magazines, newspapers or online news organizations — can submit stories now for the 2018 prizes in Journalism.
Previously, the Breaking News category was confined to local reporting by news outlets geographically proximate to the story.
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The Content Standard by Skyword
“Freelance writers are cold pitching marketers en masse,” I posted in one of my favorite online marketing forums. “Have you received cold pitches from freelance writers who want to create content for you? Would you appreciate an unsolicited communication from a hungry writer? Or do you prefer writers knock it off?”
To say the responses surprised me would be an understatement. Dozens of marketing professionals replied, but instead of a resounding chorus of angry yeses, the overwhelming answer was, “Well, it depends.”
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Entrepreneur
Self-published books are springing up all over the place. If you are an entrepreneur, having a book under your belt can boost your income exponentially. Books are to business in the millennium what business cards were to professionals 20 years ago.
In 2015, 727,000 self-published ISBN numbers were registered, meaning you run the risk of fading into the statistics unless your book is a clear masterpiece.
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Business 2 Community
As a freelancer operating on a tight budget, saving a few dollars can majorly impact your business and personal life. However, with so many different expenses, it’s often challenging to know where to start. Yet, there are easy ways to save on monthly expenses as a freelancer.
You don’t need anyone to tell you how much the business landscape has changed since the turn of the century. The growth of the internet and technologies like smartphones and cloud computing have helped skilled professionals the resources branch out on their own. Now, they can pursue freelancing as their primary source of income.
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