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Building a Portfolio

This guide will help you turn your classwork into clips and get a feel for the field in each medium. You'll find profiles of magazines, wire services, broadcast stations, weeklies and local dailies that have bought stories from or hired Columbia students, as well as contact information on how to pitch. You'll also find information on internships in the magazine profiles.

Most recently added:
• Informative article on WSJ.com: Your Best Web Footprint Forward
• Info and audio from the Freelancers Union
• Freelancing Video/Multimedia while at j-school: A Guide
Association of Independents in Radio


Turning Classwork Into Clips

How and where to get published while you're in school
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Local Newspapers / Multimedia

A list of daily, weekly and monthly publications in the metro New York region that accept freelance work. // updated August 2009
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Freelancing Video/Multimedia

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Ethnic Publications

If you’ve got a story about an ethnic community, there's a newspaper or magazine that wants it. The list.
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Magazines

How to break in, with links to magazines we've profiled.
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Broadcast

Tips and market info for television and radio.
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Alternative Weeklies

Edgy and free, the "alt'' weeklies are where aspiring magazine writers go to get their chops.
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Alt Weeklies Current Scene

Notes from the 2007 and 2008 AAN conventions, plus a look at The Village Voice
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Working for Reuters

Reuters New York/Northeast Bureau Chief Mark Egan on freelancing New York stories.
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Advice from Alumni

Grads share tips on getting jobs and how they launched their freelance careers.
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Focus on Boston

A special feature on journalism opportunities in Boston.
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Focus on Minneapolis/St. Paul

A round-up of journalism opportunities in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
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Focus on Washington, D.C.

A round-up of journalism opportunities in Washington, D.C.
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Focus on Philly

A snapshot of print opportunities in the city of Philadelphia.
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