Hunting, Gathering and Accounting: Freelance Survival Skills

We’ll help aspiring freelancers — or staffers who might wind up having to freelance next week — accelerate the learning curve with advice about issues that may seem obvious to experienced, self-employed journalists but aren’t well documented for beginners.

For instance:

• how to record your expenses but not go into Excel hell
• how not to forget a pitch or lose sight of what happened to it
• how much time to devote to developing new clients and marketing yourself
• how to avoid making tax time an accounting mess
• how to improve your online presence, often the first thing that clients see

This session is designed for:

• Freelancers, current and possible future
• Anyone who wants to brush up on self-employment basics

Speakers

Katherine Reynolds Lewis

Founder and Director, The Institute for Independent Journalists

Rob Pegoraro

Journalist