Lessons from my first full-time freelance year

Okay, not only is this the 60th TFB weekly newsletter (What?!) but this month marks my first year of full-time freelancing. I didn't think it was possible to do this, and then I took the leap. Here's what I learned.

Opportunities

Well+Good is hiring a senior health and food editor and a senior lifestyle editor in New York.
Slate is hiring a politics editor in Washington D.C. or New York.
Remezcla is hiring a food editor in New York, a staff writer in Los Angeles, an intern in New York, and freelance writers here and internationally.
The Los Angeles Times is hiring for a variety of positions, ranging from an LAPD reporter to international correspondents in Seoul and Beijing.
Vice seeks pitches for its Broadly vertical. Email dani.kwateng@vice.com. They're also looking for pitches for its erotic awakenings column. DM Sirin Kale.
The New York Times is looking for Smarter Living pitches. Email: tim@nytimes.com
Sojourners is looking for analysis or commentary pitches. Email: djcamacho@sojo.net
This magazine is looking for personal essays and columns. Email editor@this.org
CBC Indigenous is looking for pitches. Email: Lenard.monkman@cbc.ca

The Round-Up

The freelance writer of Sing Sing (Columbia Journalism Review)
How I Graduated College with 4 Job Offers (The Everygirl)
Not to be: Removing be verbs from your writing (The Writer)
Trump’s attacks on journalism inspire a new generation to write on (Boston Globe)
The Pitch: Erika Hayasaki on how to leave the newsroom and kill it as a freelancer (Nieman Storyboard)
Women and minorities are paid the least in newsrooms: report (Columbia Journalism Review)
Amid Threats of Violence, White House Reporter April Ryan Fights for the Press (The Hollywood Reporter)
KSHB reporter says she was ‘suspended’ for sharing Guardian story on white privilege (The Kansas City Star)

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