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Freelancers can make blogs work for them

Here's an interesting piece from Prezz Gazette in UK on blogging. I've had a blog since March 2004 and it's been helpful in experimenting with writing styles, storing or playing with ideas and highlighting recent work.

Freelance journalists can use blogs to fatten up features, research stories, garner contacts, market their work, earn cash and publicise projects.

Christopher Allbritton raised $15,000 (£8,600) from readers of his Back to Iraq blog in March 2003. The cash enabled him to travel to Iraq and report on the war and he became "the web's first fully reader-funded journalist-blogger". As a result of his blog he was hired by Time magazine. Allbritton returned to Iraq in January 2005 and continues to blog his experiences while freelancing for Time and other outlets.


One of our programs at the national convention in Chicago is about marketing ourselves as freelancers. I'm going to need ideas and speakers so feel free to get those churning now. I'm looking for unusual marketing ideas and specific strategies that other freelancers can go home and try for themselves.

UPDATE: He may not be a freelancer, but here's how Malcolm Gladwell uses a blog. He also has a link to it from his Web site.
Published Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:02 AM by WendyHoke

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