Picture by Paola RodriguezEditors attentively hearken to freelancers pitch their concepts throughout PitchFest at Well being Journalism 2022.
Hiya freelancers! Lots of you might be finalizing your pitches for the editors you met at PitchFest throughout Health Journalism 2022 in Austin and making ready to signal contracts. To assist, I’ve added some new and revised market guides to the Freelance Center and supplied a listing of assets for negotiating contracts in case they comprise clauses you don’t like.
And don’t overlook to affix our month-to-month Lunch & Study dialogue this Thursday. We will likely be discussing sourcing and reporting. Lunch & Learns present a chance for member freelancers to speak a few designated matter over Zoom each third Thursday at 12 p.m. CST The Zoom link stays the identical each month, and it may be discovered on the Networking tab at AHCJ’s Freelance Middle.
New and revised market guides
Since final running a blog concerning the market guides, I’ve added two new ones and one revised information. Listed below are some fast summaries:
This digital publication pays $2 per phrase for function articles that vary in size from 800 to three,000 phrases. Science & Know-how Editor Lauren Morello mentioned, “Our candy spot is the collision of science and medication and coverage.” Options usually method a narrative by way of a number of lenses resembling science, economics, misinformation, the regulation, politics and expertise.
Leaps publishes articles about discoveries in science and expertise that vary in size from 750 to 1,500 phrases. This nonprofit enterprise pays freelancers $1 a phrase and barely extra to a few of its veteran, award-winning writers
This on-line journal pays between $1,000 and $3,000 for options that vary in size from 1,000 and three,500 phrases. Its viewers of scientists, researchers, biohackers, entrepreneurs and pattern spotters wish to know “how science and expertise alter the world inside us — our personal brains, genomes, and microbiomes,” in accordance with its web site.
Contracts
Listed below are some assets when you had been fortunate sufficient to have landed an project at PitchFest however face a tough contract state of affairs. The knowledge obtainable on these websites will not be authorized recommendation or an alternative choice to authorized counsel.
- A Culture of Safety: ACOS presents journalists a contract template and supporting explanatory paperwork.
- Columbia Journalist Review: Attorneys provide recommendation about understanding and negotiating three essential clauses present in contracts.
- Freelancer Union: This member group presents a step-by-step contract creator.
- Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts: Volunteer attorneys at VLA will help low-income artists, together with writers, with mental property points and contracts. Membership is required.
