Some great advice from freelance foreign correspondent Rob Crilly.
Some useful links for wannabe freelance foreign correspondents to accompany a lecture on the subject.
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so you wanna be a stringer
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useful resources
Join the journalism.co.uk discussion list and think about getting yourself listed in their database.
Check out the rates for newspapers, magazines and more.
Take some solid advice/how to books like Feature writing for journalists or similar.
November 30, 2010
building your online presence
This is the entire process I used to create Kigali Wire. I don’t use all of it now, but it’ll give you a good idea of what can be done and how.
November 30, 2010
writing a feature
From the initial idea to the pitch to the commission. I blogged the entire process of one story.
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research outlets
Paperboy is a good place to start looking at different newspaper outlets. Find the “about us” or “contact us” pages of papers and make contact. Better - make face to face contact if possible.
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travel light
You don’t need the most expensive, fancy equipment to put together a report.
November 30, 2010
how to be a foreign correspondent
“have someone interesting to talk to, somewhere interesting to go to, something interesting to write about, record, shoot, film, link to, and an outlet to file to, every single day”
