How journalists earn has diversified. It now includes making money from your blog, YouTube channel or social media channels. Journalist and author Alexandra Campbell now estimates around 70% of her writing income is earned from her Middlesized Garden blog and YouTube channel. In this workshop, she’ll explain what the new media income streams are and [...]
Tuesday 18th May: Tips on how to find amazing case studies and reliably come up with good ideas. The secret to finding great case studies and sources of inspiration for ideas to pitch. How to build a contacts database and get stories no one else gets.
Tune in to our panel of top podcasters from legacy print titles to lone freelances. You'll hear about how to find and grow an audience, how podcasting can extend and enhance your existing personal or company brand and if you can make money out it. There'll be a Q&A too but please don't expect much [...]
Anna Codrea Rado, founder of the Fair Pay for Freelancers campaign, discussed her new book You're the Business: How to Build a Successful Career When You Strike Out Alone in an exclusive event for Women in Journalism. She was interviewed by award-winning freelance journalist Donna Ferguson about her top tips for starting out as a [...]
Our sixth brilliant guest for our ‘In conversation’ series was Katya Adler, Europe Editor, BBC News, & British Journalism Review’s Charles Wheeler Award winner 2019. She talked to Alison Phillips about her 24-year career, covering Brexit, how she deals with the crossfire from “bringing uncomfortable truths into the living room”, how she manages her family and busy working [...]
"For more than 80 years, No7 has given women the support and encouragement to take on crucial moments in their lives with confidence and self-belief, being allies of unstoppable women everywhere. That’s why we are so proud to be sponsoring Women in Journalism’s Christmas celebrations, an organisation whose beliefs in supporting women so closely mirrors [...]
Where: ZOOM When : Tuesday Sept 29 Time: 18.00 to 19.00 Join award winning journalist, broadcaster and WIJ committee member Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to hear her talk about her latest book with Sonya Thomas WIJ committee member & freelance journalist, Ladies Who Punch: 50 Trailblazing Women Whose Stories We Should Know. Throughout history, plucky, indomitable, daring, [...]
When : October 6 Time : 6pm to 7pm Julie Welch talks to Eve Pollard (legend!) about her new book Fleet Street Girls – The women who broke down the doors of the gentleman’s club. Her personal story tells of the female journalists who broke down barriers in the 1970s and 1980s as women moved up the ranks in Fleet Street when it was [...]
In conversation with Countdown's Susie Dent about her new book, Word Perfect. Join Countdown’s queen of Dictionary Corner in conversation about her new book, Word Perfect, with Julia Langdon, political journalist, author and scrabble legend. Susie will share the stories behind common phrases like stealing someone’s thunder, May Day and the meaning of “snaccident” – [...]
When : September 22 Time : 6.00 to 7.00 PM How I (lost and) found myself after 40 – and you can too. Former editor in chief of Cosmopolitan and Red and co-founder of The Pool, Sam will be talking to her former colleague and WIJ committee member Louise Court. “It’s the book I wish [...]
