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Getting started as a Freelance

Humphrey Evans & Phil Sutcliffe
Content
Freelance journalists work as writers, reporters, subeditors and photographers and more in areas covering newspapers, magazines, broadcasting and books and more. This one-day course covers the ground that freelances, and people thinking of going freelance, need to be aware of.
* Setting yourself to decide what you can offer as a freelance
* The jump from staff to freelance
* Looking for work
* Interacting with editors
* Doing deals that stick
* How to find out about finance and tax
* How to try to make sure clients pay up
* What the NUJ offers in the way of help
* Copyright ins and outs
* Question & Answer session when you can ask about your own situation and anything else

Who should attend
Freelances in the early days (or months, or even years) of their freelance career; freelances who are returning to freelancing; staff journalists who are thinking about going freelancing; people who have come into freelance journalism from other backgrounds

Qualifications
A desire to find out whether freelancing is right for you and how to go about it

Expected learning outcomes
* An understanding of what freelancing requires
* Acquisition of a level of awareness of the components that go into successful freelancing

Further courses to consider
Anything journalistic, whether feature writing, news writing, Quark XPress or InDesign. (Note that we don’t teach how to do the journalism itself on the Getting Started as a Freelance course, just how to put it into practice as a freelance.)
Specifically, the suite of courses on aspects of freelancing being developed by NUJ Training which cover in greater detail topics such as marketing your work, tax and copyright.

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Date added: 2009-06-05
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FORTHCOMING DATES
Getting started as a Freelance on 17/09/2010

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If you want to know more about this course, or you have any questions for previous attendees, visit the Course Forums section of the site.

TESTIMONIALS
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  • Belinda Otas (5 June 2006)
  • Ciaran O'Neill (Northern Ireland, 26 October 2006)
  • Jo Scott (27 October 2007)
  • Caroline Jack (London Friday 11th July 2008)
  • Peter Browning (11th July 2008 Freelancer)
  • Sallu Buffard Researcher/Writer (21 March 2009 )
  • Mathew Taylor (London 31st July - Non Member from Leeds)
  • Sarah Cowell Feature Writer (31st July London)
  • Helen Johnson (Freelancer London 6th November 2009)
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