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Grant writing can boost your freelance income. Do you want to try your hand at it, but don't know how to get started? Jeanne Erdman tells all.
Although it may be possible to survive as a freelance on straight journalism alone, most of us also take on other work as well, for universities, corporations, or research institutions. Jeanne Erdmann explores the rules, guidelines, and pitfalls in working both sides of the line.
Thinking of plying your trade from a foreign land? Nancy Bazilchuk is currently doing so from Norway, and offers some pithy advice, including "Don't be fooled by the conventional wisdom that 'everybody speaks English.'"
Are you a student or young science writer looking for guidance on how veteran science writers do their jobs? Here's a chance to find out for yourself through the NASW Mentoring at AAAS Program, which matches graduate science writing students and professionals who've been on the science beat for two years or less with established science journalists and public information officers for a day during the AAAS Annual Meeting.
Make plans now to attend NASW's annual meeting in Baltimore, Oct. 27-31, 2006. Program information and registration will be available in August.
The NASW Education Committee will again sponsor the annual "Mentoring at AAAS" program in February, and we need your help. The program matches a veteran journalist or public information officer with a novice science writer or a student in a graduate science writing program. For 2006, the program will be offered at the AAAS annual meeting in St. Louis. (Feb. 16-20).