More Acquisition Updates from Liaison’s Desk

More freelance radio show updates from Paul Ingles. -mia

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I’m hearing back from other programs now:

*PRI’S THE WORLD*

William Troop: Our program is accepting pitches from independents. The pitches can go to our two planning editors: Jennifer.Goren@bbc.co.uk and Aaron.Schachter@bbc.co.uk. We ask that anybody pitching keep in mind that we are an international news [...]

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Acquisitions Update – who is taking what from radio freelancers

This incredibly valuable information for radio freelancers, from Paul Ingles, the NPR Liaison to Independent Producers. Please note that much of the radio information I send on to this group comes from AIR – the Association of Independents in Radio http://airmedia.org/. I have been a member for a long time and it’s an incredibly valuable [...]

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Freelance Media Workers Guild survey

A survey from the Freelance Media Workers Guild – help them help you better. -mia

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If you’re an independent journalist — writer, editor, illustrator, photographer, filmmaker, multi-media producer — and you live in Northern California, we want to hear from you.

Guild Freelancers is surveying area freelancers to learn more about their lives, their [...]

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Member Spotlight - April Dembosky

Freelance Cafe member April Dembosky won the Best New Artist award in the Third Coast International Audio Festival competition last fall. Check out her feature below.

Best New Artist Death Comes Home (USA) By April Dembosky with advisors Claire Schoen and Cynthia Gorney

Death Comes Home is a portrait of three families who have [...]

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Member Spotlight - Erik Castro

Freelance Cafe member Erik Castro won first place in the The National Press Photographers Association monthly peer-reviewed multimedia contest recently. Check it out!

1st place Individual Audio Slideshow  -  Musical Maycie Erik Castro Notes: A blind girl’s life in a children’s orchestra (published 10-02-09 Press Democrat) [...]

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The Sad Ocurrence

News writers are in a helluva fix. Despite spanking brand new news websites, micro-local blogging and dedicated journalism programs trying to figure out how to attract and retain readers, the future is bleak for writers. For it is a future which includes diminishing career prospects. [...]

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KALW news magazine launch

Hello freelancers. Unfortunately I missed the boat on this one (the launch was yesterday) but I hope you’ll check out the site regardless. KALW is doing some fantastic work in the Bay Area and they are VERY good to freelancers – lots of opportunity there. They are currently looking for community correspondents from various places [...]

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possible photo opportunity and poetry prize

Hey folks. A couple posts courtesy of the Freelancer’s Guild. There has been some confusion in the past about this, so let me clarify: the Freelancer’s Guild is a separate organization (part of the CA Media Workers Guild) that has its own organizers, events, posts, etc. They are doing some great work for Bay Area [...]

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a question for print freelancers

Hey folks. This is from a colleague of mine in Philly. If any of you print folks have a minute to drop her a line, I would really appreciate it! Thx, Mia

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Hello print freelancers!

I have a favor to ask–I am a student in a master’s program at the J School at Temple [...]

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self-employment disability insurance

There are only two things I miss about working in a regular office job (besides regular interaction with the rest of the working world, of course).

1) IT – Tech Support. I can’t even count the number of hours I’ve spent tearing my hair out over some computer problem that an IT department could fix [...]

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