Beyond PitchFest: New market guides and tips for negotiating contracts

Hi freelancers! Several of you may perhaps be finalizing your pitches for the editors you satisfied at PitchFest through Health Journalism 2022 in Austin and making ready to signal contracts. To enable, I have added some new and revised sector guides to the Freelance Center and delivered a list of assets for negotiating contracts in circumstance they comprise clauses you really do not like.

And really do not neglect to be part of our monthly Lunch & Study dialogue this Thursday. We will be talking about sourcing and reporting. Lunch & Learns provide an option for member freelancers to chat about a selected matter around Zoom every third Thursday at 12 p.m. CST The Zoom link stays the exact same each and every month, and it can be observed on the Networking tab at AHCJ’s Freelance Center.

New and revised market place guides

Considering that very last blogging about the industry guides, I have additional two new ones and a person revised guide. Listed here are some fast summaries:

Grid News

This digital publication pays $2 for each word for feature content articles that variety in length from 800 to 3,000 words. Science & Technologies Editor Lauren Morello mentioned, “Our sweet location is the collision of science and medicine and policy.” Attributes ordinarily approach a story by means of multiple lenses such as science, economics, misinformation, the law, politics and technological know-how.

Leaps

Leaps publishes posts about discoveries in science and technological know-how that assortment in duration from 750 to 1,500 phrases. This nonprofit venture pays freelancers $1 a phrase and a bit far more to some of its veteran, award-winning writers

NEO.Life

This on line magazine pays concerning $1,000 and $3,000 for functions that vary in length from 1,000 and 3,500 words and phrases. Its viewers of scientists, researchers, biohackers, business people and pattern spotters want to know “how science and technologies change the globe within us — our individual brains, genomes, and microbiomes,” in accordance to its website.

Contracts

Right here are some resources if you have been blessed more than enough to have landed an assignment at PitchFest but facial area a tough agreement problem. The information obtainable on these web-sites is not legal tips or a substitute for lawful counsel.

• A Lifestyle of Basic safety: ACOS presents journalists a contract template and supporting explanatory paperwork.

• Columbia Journalist Assessment: Lawyers supply assistance about comprehending and negotiating a few crucial clauses uncovered in contracts.

• Freelancer Union: This member group gives a action-by-stage agreement creator.

• Volunteer Attorneys for the Arts: Volunteer legal professionals at VLA will guide low-money artists, including writers, with intellectual house difficulties and contracts. Membership is demanded.

 

Barbara Mantel (@BJMantel), an impartial journalist, is AHCJ’s freelance community correspondent. Her get the job done has appeared in CQ Researcher, Rural Wellbeing Quarterly, Undark, Healthline, NBCNews.com and NPR, among other people. She can help associates come across the assets they have to have to thrive as freelancers and welcomes your solutions.