Original air date: November 14, 2024

Join professional contract journalists Joanne Y. Cleaver, Tatiana Walk-Morris, and Brooke Bilyj for a discussion on best practices in finding clients, being found by editors, pitching, netting referrals and more on keeping your work pipeline full.

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Webinar Details:

Join ASBPE as we explore searching for and securing contract journalism jobs — from one-off articles to remote editor positions. Tatiana Walk-Morris, independent journalist and content writer, and Joanne Y. Cleaver, journalist, editor and author, share their best practices and tips for finding clients, how to be found by staff editors, pitching, getting referrals, and more.

Moderated by ASBPE Vice President and Founder/Chief Content Officer of Bantamedia, Brooke Bilyj.

Panelists:

• Tatiana Walk-Morris is a Detroit-born, Chicago-based independent journalist and writer whose work primarily focused on business, technology, health and social justice issues. She is currently a part-time investigative reporter for the Investigative Project on Race and Equity and a summer 2023 fellow of the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at the City University of New York. Walk-Morris’ work has appeared in Planet Detroit, Crain’s Chicago Business, Retail Dive, Vanity Fair, The Financial Times and multiple other B2B, regional and national publications.
• Since 1981, Joanne Y. Cleaver has covered personal finance, real estate, investing, retirement topics and women’s economic issues, as both a freelancer and as a staff editor. She has authored eight nonfiction books, most recently, “The Career Lattice” (2012, McGraw Professional).

This archived webinar and accompanying resources are free for ASBPE members.

 

ASBPE’s “Solopreneur: Exploring the Business of Contract Journalism” is a 10-part webinar series, plus additional resources, that dives into the business side of freelance and contract journalism. During this series, we’ll cover key considerations and steps to launch, build, and sustain a successful contract journalism business. 

Join this journey toward Solopreneur success, whether you’ve been a freelancer for most of your career or you’re a staffer just starting to think about this transition. This series will advance your knowledge about starting and building your freelance business, offer tools and strategies to help grow and scale your approach, and provide continuing education and improvement opportunities for our more seasoned contract journalists.