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.
• Documentary Resources: internship opportunities and links to film festivals around the world
• Around the world: A list of English-language media Abroad
• Freelancing Your Master's Theses and Projects: A guide to niche and national pubs that accept long-form freelance work
• Six Revisions: A Beginner’s Guide to the Business Side of Freelancing
• Online portfolio lesson from the J-school Digital Media Fellows, and other tips for promoting your work: Clips, Tapes & Online Resumes and Building Your Own Website
• 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
• Freelancing tips and resources from Association of Independents in Radio
• Pitch your story ideas as Long-form Digital pieces
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 September 2010 (work in progress)
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Freelancing Video / Multimedia
Documentary Resources
Documentary internships and film festivals
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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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Association of Independents in Radio
Radio freelancing tips and resources
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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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Media Around the World
A list of English-language media abroad
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Freelance Your Theses & Projects
Places to pitch your master's and other excellent work
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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
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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Pitching Long-Form Digital
How to pitch long-form digital media.
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