Write Like a Honey Badger
@honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social
This inclusive, woman-owned, online school focuses on storytelling as a serious business. Our classes explore not just the art of writing and reporting, but how to thrive as a creative in this fast-evolving media landscape. writelikeahoneybadger.com
An incredible virtual conference starts tomorrow. @indiejournalists.bsky.social supports BIPOC writers, but welcomes allies too. Learn what 40+ top editors are looking for and how to thrive as a freelancer!
Feb 27–28, 2025. $79. 10% discount: HONEY10. Recordings available. theiij.com.
Feb 27–28, 2025. $79. 10% discount: HONEY10. Recordings available. theiij.com.
February 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
An incredible virtual conference starts tomorrow. @indiejournalists.bsky.social supports BIPOC writers, but welcomes allies too. Learn what 40+ top editors are looking for and how to thrive as a freelancer!
Feb 27–28, 2025. $79. 10% discount: HONEY10. Recordings available. theiij.com.
Feb 27–28, 2025. $79. 10% discount: HONEY10. Recordings available. theiij.com.
Last call for Travel Writing 1, taught by @amandacastleman.bsky.social and Jessica Poitevien. Don't miss this chance to work with renowned teachers at the top of their field!
#travelwriting #creativenonfiction #journalism #travel #writers #writingclass #writingcommunity #writingworkshop
#travelwriting #creativenonfiction #journalism #travel #writers #writingclass #writingcommunity #writingworkshop
My travel writing course still has three seats open at @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social. The asynchronous class starts today, 2/25 (open enrollment till day 10). Join us for industry insights and weekly developmental line-edits from expert instructors!
www.writelikeahoneybadger.com/classes/trav...
www.writelikeahoneybadger.com/classes/trav...
February 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Last call for Travel Writing 1, taught by @amandacastleman.bsky.social and Jessica Poitevien. Don't miss this chance to work with renowned teachers at the top of their field!
#travelwriting #creativenonfiction #journalism #travel #writers #writingclass #writingcommunity #writingworkshop
#travelwriting #creativenonfiction #journalism #travel #writers #writingclass #writingcommunity #writingworkshop
Needs-based scholarship opp: we're accepting applications from #journalists and emerging writers from backgrounds underrepresented in the media. Deadline midnight on 2/19 for our six-week online #travelwriting class starting 2/25.
www.writelikeahoneybadger.com/scholarships
www.writelikeahoneybadger.com/scholarships
February 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Needs-based scholarship opp: we're accepting applications from #journalists and emerging writers from backgrounds underrepresented in the media. Deadline midnight on 2/19 for our six-week online #travelwriting class starting 2/25.
www.writelikeahoneybadger.com/scholarships
www.writelikeahoneybadger.com/scholarships
February 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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New on journalism.WTF
- more journalism conferences with confirmed dates (and pitch deadlines)
- nearly 90 known journalism funders
- the start of the fellowships database
- the start of the awards database
As well as more details about upcoming resources and how to contribute.
www.journalism.wtf
- more journalism conferences with confirmed dates (and pitch deadlines)
- nearly 90 known journalism funders
- the start of the fellowships database
- the start of the awards database
As well as more details about upcoming resources and how to contribute.
www.journalism.wtf
Journalism WTF
A little help in navigating resources, events, groups and opportunities in the world of creating news and information.
www.journalism.wtf
January 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
New on journalism.WTF
- more journalism conferences with confirmed dates (and pitch deadlines)
- nearly 90 known journalism funders
- the start of the fellowships database
- the start of the awards database
As well as more details about upcoming resources and how to contribute.
www.journalism.wtf
- more journalism conferences with confirmed dates (and pitch deadlines)
- nearly 90 known journalism funders
- the start of the fellowships database
- the start of the awards database
As well as more details about upcoming resources and how to contribute.
www.journalism.wtf
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Journalism folks: There are several open jobs at ProPublica (including Florida reporter) plus there's also a freelance pitch form here: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica?g... #jobsky #jobs #hiring #media
ProPublica
ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. With a team of more than 100 dedicated journalists, ProPublica covers a range of topics,...
boards.greenhouse.io
January 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Journalism folks: There are several open jobs at ProPublica (including Florida reporter) plus there's also a freelance pitch form here: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica?g... #jobsky #jobs #hiring #media
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As a former journalist, here’s my pitch to everyone on this site: journalists are key to a healthy democracy. Subscribe to as many news organizations as you can. You are helping. #democracy. #journalism
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
As a former journalist, here’s my pitch to everyone on this site: journalists are key to a healthy democracy. Subscribe to as many news organizations as you can. You are helping. #democracy. #journalism
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Need help covering the cost of a conference, training, workshop, coaching, or other career opportunity?
Apply now for a $250 or $500 stipend to support your work.
Deadline: March 17.
Details & application 👇
www.transjournalists.org/2025-level-u...
Apply now for a $250 or $500 stipend to support your work.
Deadline: March 17.
Details & application 👇
www.transjournalists.org/2025-level-u...
TJA's new Level Up Initiative could fund your next step
Want help geting your journalism career to the next level? Apply now for $250 and $500 stipends that will support journalists' attendance at trainings, panels, conferences, and more.
www.transjournalists.org
February 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Need help covering the cost of a conference, training, workshop, coaching, or other career opportunity?
Apply now for a $250 or $500 stipend to support your work.
Deadline: March 17.
Details & application 👇
www.transjournalists.org/2025-level-u...
Apply now for a $250 or $500 stipend to support your work.
Deadline: March 17.
Details & application 👇
www.transjournalists.org/2025-level-u...
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IRE friends, we need your help spreading the word 🗣️
Our upcoming investigative journalism workshop for HSI students has a funding deadline of Feb. 24 — just 11 days away!
Students will receive IRE membership, workshop registration and a travel stipend to attend. www.ire.org/event/hsi-wo...
Our upcoming investigative journalism workshop for HSI students has a funding deadline of Feb. 24 — just 11 days away!
Students will receive IRE membership, workshop registration and a travel stipend to attend. www.ire.org/event/hsi-wo...
HSI Investigative Journalism Workshop (March 27-28) - Investigative Reporters & Editors
This IRE workshop in San Antonio is designed for students of color and all students attending Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
www.ire.org
February 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
IRE friends, we need your help spreading the word 🗣️
Our upcoming investigative journalism workshop for HSI students has a funding deadline of Feb. 24 — just 11 days away!
Students will receive IRE membership, workshop registration and a travel stipend to attend. www.ire.org/event/hsi-wo...
Our upcoming investigative journalism workshop for HSI students has a funding deadline of Feb. 24 — just 11 days away!
Students will receive IRE membership, workshop registration and a travel stipend to attend. www.ire.org/event/hsi-wo...
Registration opened for the fall @travelclassics.bsky.social conference. Interested? Apply immediately, as it usually sells out in a day or two. Another avenue: a scholarship honoring one of our former instructors, which includes the fee, accommodation & $350 towards airfare. bit.ly/travelclassics
January 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Registration opened for the fall @travelclassics.bsky.social conference. Interested? Apply immediately, as it usually sells out in a day or two. Another avenue: a scholarship honoring one of our former instructors, which includes the fee, accommodation & $350 towards airfare. bit.ly/travelclassics
#Writingtip 1.10: Paint a vivid picture with quantitative specifics. For example, Seattle averages 39°F degrees in winter: cold to a Floridian, but laughable to someone from Anchorage. Don't leave the interpretation up to reader's qualitative viewpoint! #journalism #creativenonfiction #memoir
January 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#Writingtip 1.10: Paint a vivid picture with quantitative specifics. For example, Seattle averages 39°F degrees in winter: cold to a Floridian, but laughable to someone from Anchorage. Don't leave the interpretation up to reader's qualitative viewpoint! #journalism #creativenonfiction #memoir
Charge into 2025! Last call for our online course Pitch Like a Honey Badger, which demystifies pitching #journalism and #creativenonfiction! This four-week workshop starts January 7th (enrollment open until day 10). Discover how to query like the world's most ferocious animal! bit.ly/badgerpitch
January 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Charge into 2025! Last call for our online course Pitch Like a Honey Badger, which demystifies pitching #journalism and #creativenonfiction! This four-week workshop starts January 7th (enrollment open until day 10). Discover how to query like the world's most ferocious animal! bit.ly/badgerpitch
#Writingtip 1.9: Select words for tone, connotation or rhythmic punch. For example: does "street sweeper" capture the vibe better than "sanitary engineer?" Would "azure" beat "blue"? Have you head-checked "outstanding pizza" instead of detailing *why* it's so great? #journalism #narrativenonfiction
January 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
#Writingtip 1.9: Select words for tone, connotation or rhythmic punch. For example: does "street sweeper" capture the vibe better than "sanitary engineer?" Would "azure" beat "blue"? Have you head-checked "outstanding pizza" instead of detailing *why* it's so great? #journalism #narrativenonfiction
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"If the audience’s attention affects editorial decision-making, then we need to come to terms with the fact that the audience does not necessarily know what’s good for it," @jonaskaiser.bsky.social writes.
"Instead, journalists need to consider what their audiences need."
"Instead, journalists need to consider what their audiences need."
Blocking out the audience’s siren song
"But most governance — even extreme governance — is banal. If Project 2025 is anything to go by, journalists need to focus more on the boring minutiae of policymaking and not on the sensationalism of…
buff.ly
December 10, 2024 at 1:08 PM
"If the audience’s attention affects editorial decision-making, then we need to come to terms with the fact that the audience does not necessarily know what’s good for it," @jonaskaiser.bsky.social writes.
"Instead, journalists need to consider what their audiences need."
"Instead, journalists need to consider what their audiences need."
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"It’s the only way independent journalism survives — by being as relentless about funding as we are about finding the stories power wants to bury," @lindasolomonwood.bsky.social says.
Lessons learned in The Building of Lost Causes
"The skills we developed while facing down the fossil fuel industry — persistence through trolling campaigns, converting readers one by one, turning an upstart publication into essential reading —…
buff.ly
December 10, 2024 at 3:00 PM
"It’s the only way independent journalism survives — by being as relentless about funding as we are about finding the stories power wants to bury," @lindasolomonwood.bsky.social says.
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This week: IRE is hosting a virtual listening session for members living with disabilities, chronic and/or and mental health conditions.
Join us Wednesday 1 p.m. ET to share your ideas and feedback on accessibility and inclusion within the IRE community. www.ire.org/event/ire-me...
Join us Wednesday 1 p.m. ET to share your ideas and feedback on accessibility and inclusion within the IRE community. www.ire.org/event/ire-me...
IRE Member listening session on disability, accessibility and inclusion - Investigative Reporters & Editors
IRE is hosting its first virtual listening session for members living with disabilities, chronic and/or and mental health conditions.
www.ire.org
December 10, 2024 at 5:22 PM
This week: IRE is hosting a virtual listening session for members living with disabilities, chronic and/or and mental health conditions.
Join us Wednesday 1 p.m. ET to share your ideas and feedback on accessibility and inclusion within the IRE community. www.ire.org/event/ire-me...
Join us Wednesday 1 p.m. ET to share your ideas and feedback on accessibility and inclusion within the IRE community. www.ire.org/event/ire-me...
#Writingtip 1.8: #Journalism is about applying your knowledge, skills and curiosity to works that entertain and inform others.
Don't just spin the yarns you *want* to tell, shape that material into articles that readers *need.* Serve your audience! #narrativenonfiction #pitching
Don't just spin the yarns you *want* to tell, shape that material into articles that readers *need.* Serve your audience! #narrativenonfiction #pitching
December 5, 2024 at 3:12 AM
#Writingtip 1.8: #Journalism is about applying your knowledge, skills and curiosity to works that entertain and inform others.
Don't just spin the yarns you *want* to tell, shape that material into articles that readers *need.* Serve your audience! #narrativenonfiction #pitching
Don't just spin the yarns you *want* to tell, shape that material into articles that readers *need.* Serve your audience! #narrativenonfiction #pitching
Catch our founder @amandacastleman.bsky.social talking #travelwriting with @charukesi.bsky.social, @jenrosesmith.bsky.social & our host Meera Dattani! The free webinar will be on 12/5/24, from 7am PST/10am EST. #writingtips #narrativenonfiction #journalism #pitching
bit.ly/travelmediaw...
bit.ly/travelmediaw...
December 5, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Catch our founder @amandacastleman.bsky.social talking #travelwriting with @charukesi.bsky.social, @jenrosesmith.bsky.social & our host Meera Dattani! The free webinar will be on 12/5/24, from 7am PST/10am EST. #writingtips #narrativenonfiction #journalism #pitching
bit.ly/travelmediaw...
bit.ly/travelmediaw...
#Writingtip 1.6: Avoid an attack of the unnecessary initial-caps when writing about food. In most style guides, menu items don't count as proper names, so you can lower-cap 'em. Otherwise it can go a bit A.A. Milne with The Portentous Pooh-Bear-style Capitalizations. #NarrativeNonfiction #Journalism
December 3, 2024 at 1:27 AM
#Writingtip 1.6: Avoid an attack of the unnecessary initial-caps when writing about food. In most style guides, menu items don't count as proper names, so you can lower-cap 'em. Otherwise it can go a bit A.A. Milne with The Portentous Pooh-Bear-style Capitalizations. #NarrativeNonfiction #Journalism
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Perfect example of why Twitter remains more important for journalists/freelancers than Blue Sky:
Slate editor Tony Hồ Trần posted this Pitch Call at X.
It's not here on Blue Sky.
He's here - @tonyhotran.bsky.social - but he's got only 8 followers [I just became his 8th].
Slate editor Tony Hồ Trần posted this Pitch Call at X.
It's not here on Blue Sky.
He's here - @tonyhotran.bsky.social - but he's got only 8 followers [I just became his 8th].
October 1, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Perfect example of why Twitter remains more important for journalists/freelancers than Blue Sky:
Slate editor Tony Hồ Trần posted this Pitch Call at X.
It's not here on Blue Sky.
He's here - @tonyhotran.bsky.social - but he's got only 8 followers [I just became his 8th].
Slate editor Tony Hồ Trần posted this Pitch Call at X.
It's not here on Blue Sky.
He's here - @tonyhotran.bsky.social - but he's got only 8 followers [I just became his 8th].
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I commission stories about drawings for @artukdotorg.bsky.social and I'm always looking for pitches! Some fun stories I've published recently: 🧵
November 18, 2024 at 2:53 PM
I commission stories about drawings for @artukdotorg.bsky.social and I'm always looking for pitches! Some fun stories I've published recently: 🧵
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If any writers on here are interested in writing for the New York Times Kids section, DM or email me ([email protected]) and I'll forward you their monthly pitch call.
November 25, 2024 at 6:49 PM
If any writers on here are interested in writing for the New York Times Kids section, DM or email me ([email protected]) and I'll forward you their monthly pitch call.
#Writingtip 1.6: Unless some other logic dominates, many stylists prefer series to flow short to long, similar to classic rhetoric's "tricolon crescendo" (rising isocolon). I.e; Jake the tabby stole arugula & cranberries from the salad. #narrativenonfiction #journalism
literarydevices.net/tricolon
literarydevices.net/tricolon
November 25, 2024 at 6:14 PM
#Writingtip 1.6: Unless some other logic dominates, many stylists prefer series to flow short to long, similar to classic rhetoric's "tricolon crescendo" (rising isocolon). I.e; Jake the tabby stole arugula & cranberries from the salad. #narrativenonfiction #journalism
literarydevices.net/tricolon
literarydevices.net/tricolon
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Travel writers: what a great way to prepare for 2025. Pitching, follow-up and, yeah, ghosting. Comes with the job. Learn from the best, for free.
#journalism #narrativenonfiction #writingtips #travel
#journalism #narrativenonfiction #writingtips #travel
I'm gearing up for a free #travelwriting webinar with superstars Meera Dattani and @jenrosesmith.bsky.social. Join me in getting heavily caffeinated and talking shop on December 5, 10am EST/7am PST! Grab a ticket here: bit.ly/travelmediaw...
#journalism #narrativenonfiction #writingtips #travel
#journalism #narrativenonfiction #writingtips #travel
November 21, 2024 at 5:44 AM
Travel writers: what a great way to prepare for 2025. Pitching, follow-up and, yeah, ghosting. Comes with the job. Learn from the best, for free.
#journalism #narrativenonfiction #writingtips #travel
#journalism #narrativenonfiction #writingtips #travel