Fellow Freelancers: Friends or Foes?
Last night I attended a Media Bistro event in Seattle. There are usually two or three of these every year, and I’m lucky to make it to one. Not because I don’t want to go, but because I can make a...
View ArticleStaying Connected: Fostering Freelance Relationships
The corporate world has the water cooler, schools have the teachers’ lounge and kids have the playground. Everyone has a place to hang out, brainstorm, share ideas or simply to complain. What about...
View ArticleFrom committee to community
Nobody likes a committee, except maybe a camel. So when SPJ leadership asked the Freelance Committee to think about becoming a community, we threw off our chains and reveled. Perhaps not. We are still...
View ArticleExpand your freelance network – join SPJ’s freelance community!
Hello, freelance colleagues! Have you heard about SPJ’s new Freelance Community? Launched this summer, the community is a new way for SPJ members interested in freelancing to connect with each other....
View ArticleCollaborative Freelancing
By guest blogger Hazel Becker During the Collaborative Journalism Summit at Montclair State (NJ) University in early May, my mind returned to questions I’ve been pondering since becoming chair of the...
View ArticleHow to make your chapter more freelancer-friendly
Guest blogger: Adina Solomon When I started thinking about journalism as a high school student, I pictured a staff job. Who didn’t? Maybe I could write bold features for a magazine or report for a...
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