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December 20th, 2013 • Quill Archives, Freelance Toolbox
Freelance Toolbox

NOTE: A portion of this column ran previously on SPJ’s SPJ’s Independent Journalist blog. A few months ago, there was breaking news almost in my backyard, and suddenly I had more freelance business than I knew what to do about. I’d just come out of my Norman, Okla.,

June 1st, 2011 • Quill Archives, Freelance Toolbox
Freelance Toolbox

I became a full-time freelance journalist three years ago. The first thing I did was make a mistake. It took me a while to figure that out — from the start I was busy writing for local, regional and national newspapers, magazines and websites.

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