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As 2016 comes to a close, the American Society of Journalists and Authors wishes its members a safe and happy holiday season. To allow our staff to spend time with friends and family during the holidays, The ASJA Weekly will contain limited new content until the new year.
We will resume regular publications on Friday, Jan. 6.
ASJA
Registration is now open for the 2017 ASJA Conference in New York at the Roosevelt Hotel May 5 & 6. Join us for the 46th Annual Writers Conference – Pivot. Publish. Prosper. We’ve created a stellar lineup of speakers including keynote speaker Andrea King Collier, a multimedia journalist, essayist and author who has been on a full-time freelance path for over 25 years.
Early bird rates now available — to register, click here. The hotel early bird registration is also now open. For individual reservations, please call (212) 661-9600 or 1-888-833-3969, and reference “ASJA” to take advantage of the special rate of $249 per night from May 3-7, 2017.
Columbia Journalism Review
What are the purposes of innovation in journalism? Since the birth of radio almost a century ago, one has been to deliver news to audiences as they stampede from one new communications medium to another. Radio, television, cable television, the web and smartphones successively disrupted the formats in which journalism producers reached the public. And since it is usually necessary to reach large audiences to pay for the costs of professional journalism, each of these disruptive waves has brought anxiety about — and innovation to solve — the problem of making money.
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The WRITER
I know a couple of $100,000-per-year freelance writers, and here’s what they don’t want you to know: none of them — save perhaps one — is probably that much of a better writer than you. So why do they all make big bucks while others end up with peanuts? One way or another, these guys have figured out success-making strategies like the following — and they stick to them.
The new year is just around the corner, so give these steps a go and see if you don’t bring in a higher income next year.
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Tech.co
Freelancers are on the rise. In 2016, U.S. freelancers earned an estimated $1 trillion. In 2017, they’re on track to continuing growing. And by 2020, according to some studies, freelancers could become the majority of U.S. workers. Startups would be smart to adapt their hiring practices.
But what will this shift in work style mean overall?
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