Living on AIR: Strategies for freelancers
Freelancers will find that Sue Schardt, executive director of AIR, Inc., has a world of strategies to help them succeed. AIR is the Association of Independents in Radio and, in 25 years, has grown to...
View ArticleHow journalists can build their own powerful brands
Dan Schawbel, author of “Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success” and ”Me 2.0″ and founder of Millennial Branding, talked to Poynter and a live chat audience about what a career brand...
View ArticleLive Chat: Ethics of unpaid internships
Unpaid internships have been getting a lot of attention recently, most of it unwanted, as the result of lawsuits and canceled programs. ProPublica has been covering the issue, from Northwestern’s...
View ArticleUnderstanding opportunities and challenges in sponsored content (Replay chat)
Shane Snow, cofounder with two friends of Contently, manages a network of 25,000 freelancers. According to Contently’s website, the sweet spot where these freelancers thrive is creating content for...
View ArticleLive chat replay: What happens when a journalism career breaks?
Thousands of journalists have had to pick up the pieces and start over because of layoffs, firings and downsizing. Warren Watson, executive director of the Society of American Business Editors and...
View ArticleLive chat replay: how to make LinkedIn work for you
With more than a quarter billion people using LinkedIn, almost 100 million of them in the United States, LinkedIn has reach. But how do you get the most out of it? What can it do for your career other...
View ArticleLive chat replay: What sports journalists need to know to compete
In remarks for the College Media Association conference in New York on March 13, Associated Press Vice President Lou Ferrara issued a wake-up call for sports reporters. He said traditional sports...
View ArticleLive chat replay: Will crowdfunding finance journalists?
The startup Beacon, one of the newer efforts to fund independent journalists, says it has signed up 100 journalists and several thousand subscribers. Shane Bauer is now featured on the site, trying to...
View ArticleLive Chat replay: Journalist Rodney Curtis tells how he got laid (off), lived...
Rodney Curtis is not right. Like thousands of other journalists, he got laid off. Unlike all the others, though, he decided this would make a funny book, “Getting Laid (Off).” Who does that? Seriously,...
View ArticleLive chat replay: What opportunities do storytelling apps hold for journalists?
With a solid career in news design Joe Zeff, has become a top designer of apps. Formerly the graphics director at TIME, Zeff designs apps that, among other things, focus on telling stories. His latest...
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