SEJ board president Bobby Magill got his first freelance assignment from a connection he made at an SEJ conference. That assignment, and many others, helped him land a job at Climate Central covering national stories. Later, another SEJ connection helped him get a meeting — at another SEJ conference — with his future editor at Bloomberg Environment in Washington, D.C. Many of our members have similar stories of how SEJ has made a difference in their careers — and their lives. Read more and please give now.
It's not often that a new genre of science writing opens up for freelancers. But writer Dan Bloom suggests there's a growing market for freelancers who want to write about climate in the form known as “cli-fi,” a new dystopian fiction that focuses on future impacts of climate change. Freelance Files editor Karen Schaefer invited him to share his perspective on the emerging genre.
Our Calendar lists professional meetings, press conferences, awards/fellowships/workshops deadlines and more. Jan 4, 2019 deadline: The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism/City University of New York (CUNY) Resilience Journalism Fellowship will be held Feb 24-Mar 1, 2019. Includes lodging, tuition, most meals and travel costs. Open to all professional, mid-career journalists.
#SEJ2018 in Flint, Michigan, hosted by the University of Michigan-Flint, took place Oct 3-7, 2018. Find multimedia coverage here (including audios of most sessions), peruse the agenda or read speaker bios.
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