Your profile in the ASJA member directory may be the key to getting into your dream publication or landing more clients. a recent webinar by ASJA’s Membership Engagement Committee offered step-by-step instructions on how to complete the ASJA member profile.
The submission deadline for the 2025 ASJA Awards is Friday, May 16 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Enter your best works from 2024 now!
Asking what the going rate is for freelancers is the wrong question. The right question is: What’s the hourly rate you need to reach your income goals? ASJA member and past president Jack El-Hai breaks it down.
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In 1978, the summer after sixth grade, I wanted a pair of Dr. Scholl’s wooden…
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It’s been a helluva year at ASJA. A half-year, really. There is not a lot…
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While there are plenty of internet memes that make light of how difficult it is…
Twenty-three years ago, I started researching one of the nation’s oldest active missing-child cases, a…
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The decision by the Board of Directors not to hold ASJA’s annual conference this year…
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