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The SPJ Freelancer Directory: Editors: Need a personal finance writer from California? How about a sportswriter from Texas or an arts & entertainment writer from Illinois? Find the right journalist for your next assignment with SPJ’s brand-new Freelancer Directory. Search by state and/or specialty, subscribe to state-specific RSS feeds, or just do some window shopping. Freelancers: What are you waiting for? Adding your information to the directory is free if you're an SPJ member. Not a member? Here are a few more reasons to become one.



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The Independent Journalist: The Society of Professional Journalist's blog for freelance writers, editors and photographers working in print, broadcast and online media. Let's talk. Latest entries:

• How are you getting through the journalism collapse?
• Interesting site
• Freelancing -- A Business? You Bet It Is!

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Reading Room: Continuing to improve as a professional is a focal point of any good journalist. Inside, you'll find articles written by SPJ Freelance Committee chairs Wendy Hoke and Dawn Reiss that address the needs and challenges of Freelance Journalists, as well as tips on how to improve your contacts and source gathering.

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SPJ's New Job Bank: SPJ's revamped Job Bank has expanded to give members even greater benefits than before. Now all members can post résumés and career profiles, which registered employers can search. Creating your profile is free for all SPJ members, so get started today!

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Advocacy
Protect Your Work: The 2006 HP scandal prompted many journalists to ask how to protect their privacy. SPJ member Scott Cohn, a founder of and senior correspondent for CNBC, has some answers.

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Freelance Resources: Even when you're flying solo, you don't have to go it alone. Check out this list of resources and organizations devoted to aiding freelancers in everything from pitching stories to paying taxes.

 

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The Independent Journalist Blog: Latest Posts
• How are you getting through the journalism collapse?
• Interesting site
• Freelancing -- A Business? You Bet It Is!

Freelance Committee Chair
Amy Green
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Bio (click to expand) Amy Green is a freelance journalist for People, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor and many others. She specializes in faith, ethics and social issues, and her work also has appeared in Christianity Today, Charisma and with Religion News Service. She is a former Associated Press reporter in Nashville, Tenn., and in 2006 she worked for a month in Boston as an editor on the national desk of the Monitor. She is an active member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Society of Professional Journalists. This spring she traveled to Taiwan with an SPJ delegation of working journalists to help foster a professional exchange with journalists in that country. She is a journalism graduate from the University of Florida and is an occasional speaker on the business of freelancing. She works and lives in Orlando, Fla.

Stephenie Overman, vice chair
Freelance writer
3659 Vacation Lane
Arlington, VA 22207
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Bio (click to expand) picture Stephenie Overman is a Washington, D.C.-area freelance writer who specializes in workplace and health care issues. She is past president of the Washington pro chapter (1995-1996) and the New Jersey chapter (2002-2004); she was secretary of the Los Angeles chapter (1997-1998). She was COO of the 2004 national SPJ convention in New York and co-chair of the 1996 Washington convention. She received a Howard S. Dubin Outstanding Pro Chapter Member Award for 2002-2003.


Freelance Committee Members

Emily Perlman Abedon
Freelance journalist
Charleston, S.C.


Kathy Ehrich Dowd
Freelance journalist
Hoboken, N.J.
Bio (click to expand) picture Kathy Ehrich Dowd is a full-time freelance journalist and regular contributor to People magazine. She has also written for publications including USA Today, the New York Daily News, the Boston Herald and the UK’s Sunday Times magazine. She was the founding entertainment editor of Life & Style Weekly and has taught a red-carpet reporting class through mediabistro. Kathy graduated from Boston University’s College of Communication and began her career working for regional newspapers in the Boston area. She just became a member of SPJ this year to network and meet fellow freelancers.

Bruce Shutan
Freelance journalist
Los Angeles


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