ONE-DAY BOOT CAMPS AT SFU VANCOUVER
How to Succeed at Freelance Journalism
This boot camp, taught by an award-winning freelance journalist, is for aspiring writers and established journalists who want to learn how to make money through freelance work.
We’ll cover the following:
- Connecting with editors
- Pitching story ideas to newspapers, magazines, and websites
- Developing your professional brand
- Promoting yourself via the web, social media, and non-digital channels
- Developing a professional network
- Finding freelance writing opportunities
- Supplementing your income through corporate writing opportunities
- Building a freelance business plan
The course will feature lecture, class discussion, and guest presentations from leading local journalists and writers. By the end of the day, you’ll be ready to develop a freelance writing plan detailing your writing and income goals.
Please note that is not a writing course. We’ll focus exclusively on how to succeed financially as a freelance journalist by taking advantage of paid writing opportunities.
Saturday, August 24, 2013, 10 am–4 pm
SFU Vancouver Harbour Center campus
$166.95
Instructor
Remy Scalza
Remy Scalza is a Vancouver-based freelance journalist who writes regularly for The Washington Post and whose work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Wine Spectator magazine, and other high-profile publications. Locally, he contributes to BCBusiness magazine and has written for Vancouver Magazine and Western Living. He has won national and international newspaper and magazine awards and teaches a popular hands-on travel writing course at Langara College. For a writing portfolio and more information, visit www.remyscalza.com.
