While You Were Writing – 3/22/2013
Don’t just call us writers. I think that sells us short. We are journalists. A writer asserts that something is true (or not) just because they wrote it; a journalist verifies …
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While You Were Writing – 3/15/2013
Why has the decision by a Silicon Valley giant to shutter a free, consumer technology lit up the journalism community? Because so many of us rely on it.
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You Own Your Personal Brand, Rent it Out
Reporters today own their own brand (and audience). They lease it to their employer, briefly, and take it with them when they leave. The notion is only amplified for freelancers.
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Affordable Care for Freelancers
Healthcare. It sets freelancers apart from their staff counterparts like no other issue.
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Take a Picture
What is the one thing a freelance writer can do today to improve the chances a pitch will be accepted, raise the rates they charge, find a new market for …
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While You Were Writing — 1/11/13
This week, While You Were Writing is sharing the stories of hardworking freelancers who make their living one article or blog post at a time.
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While You Were Writing – 12/14/2012
For my money, the ebook might be the greatest opportunity for journalists brought by the digital age. It’s a medium tailor-made to span the middle ground between feature story and …
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While You Were Writing – 12/7/2012
A tragedy this week on New York subway platform placed a fellow freelance journalist in the crosshairs of controversy.
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While You Were Writing – 11/16/2012
The new replaces the old. The world has followed that sequence for eons — the buggy was replaced by the automobile which was later replaced by the hover car. And …
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While You Were Writing – Time Magazine’s Elevation of Instagram
Time Magazine may have changed how we view this week photojournalism by putting an iphone photo on its cover.
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