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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Not getting the writing work you want? Our online pitch classes help you strategize and offer hands-on edits. Join renowned instructor @amandacastleman.bsky.social for Pitch Like a Honey Badger, starting 1/9, or her Journalism Pitch Master Class, which launches on 1/14. www.writelikeahoneybadger.com

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Write Like a Honey Badger – online writing classes

This female-owned school offers online writing classes, from showing emerging authors the ropes to helping hardcore experts who want to level-up their careers.

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Last chance for early bird pricing on the best virtual journalism conference out there, hosted by The Institute for Independent Journalists! This two-day early-May event costs just $49 until we ring in 2026. Learn from 45 editors and writers from major outlets! bit.ly/3YenZzb

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

An incredible virtual conference starts tomorrow. @indiejournalists.bsky.social supports BIPOC writers, but welcomes allies too. Learn what 40+ top editors are looking for and how to thrive as a freelancer! Feb 27–28, 2025. $79. 10% discount: HONEY10. Recordings available. theiij.com.

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Last call for Travel Writing 1, taught by @amandacastleman.bsky.social and Jessica Poitevien. Don't miss this chance to work with renowned teachers at the top of their field! #travelwriting #creativenonfiction #journalism #travel #writers #writingclass #writingcommunity #writingworkshop

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Needs-based scholarship opp: we're accepting applications from #journalists and emerging writers from backgrounds underrepresented in the media. Deadline midnight on 2/19 for our six-week online #travelwriting class starting 2/25. www.writelikeahoneybadger.com/scholarships

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Heather Bryant @hbcompass.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

New on journalism.WTF - more journalism conferences with confirmed dates (and pitch deadlines) - nearly 90 known journalism funders - the start of the fellowships database - the start of the awards database As well as more details about upcoming resources and how to contribute. www.journalism.wtf

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Journalism WTF

A little help in navigating resources, events, groups and opportunities in the world of creating news and information.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Journalism folks: There are several open jobs at ProPublica (including Florida reporter) plus there's also a freelance pitch form here: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica?g... #jobsky #jobs #hiring #media

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ProPublica

ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. With a team of more than 100 dedicated journalists, ProPublica covers a range of topics,...

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Stephanie Smith @ssmithnyc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

As a former journalist, here’s my pitch to everyone on this site: journalists are key to a healthy democracy. Subscribe to as many news organizations as you can. You are helping. #democracy. #journalism

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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 13/02/2025

Need help covering the cost of a conference, training, workshop, coaching, or other career opportunity? Apply now for a $250 or $500 stipend to support your work. Deadline: March 17. Details & application 👇 www.transjournalists.org/2025-level-u...

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TJA's new Level Up Initiative could fund your next step

Want help geting your journalism career to the next level? Apply now for $250 and $500 stipends that will support journalists' attendance at trainings, panels, conferences, and more.

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Investigative Reporters & Editors @ire.org · 13/02/2025

IRE friends, we need your help spreading the word 🗣️ Our upcoming investigative journalism workshop for HSI students has a funding deadline of Feb. 24 — just 11 days away! Students will receive IRE membership, workshop registration and a travel stipend to attend. www.ire.org/event/hsi-wo...

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HSI Investigative Journalism Workshop (March 27-28) - Investigative Reporters & Editors

This IRE workshop in San Antonio is designed for students of color and all students attending Hispanic-Serving Institutions.

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Registration opened for the fall @travelclassics.bsky.social conference. Interested? Apply immediately, as it usually sells out in a day or two. Another avenue: a scholarship honoring one of our former instructors, which includes the fee, accommodation & $350 towards airfare. bit.ly/travelclassics

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

#Writingtip 1.10: Paint a vivid picture with quantitative specifics. For example, Seattle averages 39°F degrees in winter: cold to a Floridian, but laughable to someone from Anchorage. Don't leave the interpretation up to reader's qualitative viewpoint! #journalism #creativenonfiction #memoir

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Charge into 2025! Last call for our online course Pitch Like a Honey Badger, which demystifies pitching #journalism and #creativenonfiction! This four-week workshop starts January 7th (enrollment open until day 10). Discover how to query like the world's most ferocious animal! bit.ly/badgerpitch

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

#Writingtip 1.9: Select words for tone, connotation or rhythmic punch. For example: does "street sweeper" capture the vibe better than "sanitary engineer?" Would "azure" beat "blue"? Have you head-checked "outstanding pizza" instead of detailing *why* it's so great? #journalism #narrativenonfiction

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 10/12/2024

"If the audience’s attention affects editorial decision-making, then we need to come to terms with the fact that the audience does not necessarily know what’s good for it," @jonaskaiser.bsky.social writes. "Instead, journalists need to consider what their audiences need."

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Blocking out the audience’s siren song

"But most governance — even extreme governance — is banal. If Project 2025 is anything to go by, journalists need to focus more on the boring minutiae of policymaking and not on the sensationalism of…

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Investigative Reporters & Editors @ire.org · 10/12/2024

This week: IRE is hosting a virtual listening session for members living with disabilities, chronic and/or and mental health conditions. Join us Wednesday 1 p.m. ET to share your ideas and feedback on accessibility and inclusion within the IRE community. www.ire.org/event/ire-me...

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IRE Member listening session on disability, accessibility and inclusion - Investigative Reporters & Editors

IRE is hosting its first virtual listening session for members living with disabilities, chronic and/or and mental health conditions.

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

#Writingtip 1.8: #Journalism is about applying your knowledge, skills and curiosity to works that entertain and inform others. Don't just spin the yarns you *want* to tell, shape that material into articles that readers *need.* Serve your audience! #narrativenonfiction #pitching

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Catch our founder @amandacastleman.bsky.social talking #travelwriting with @charukesi.bsky.social, @jenrosesmith.bsky.social & our host Meera Dattani! The free webinar will be on 12/5/24, from 7am PST/10am EST. #writingtips #narrativenonfiction #journalism #pitching bit.ly/travelmediaw...

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#Writingtip 1.6: Avoid an attack of the unnecessary initial-caps when writing about food. In most style guides, menu items don't count as proper names, so you can lower-cap 'em. Otherwise it can go a bit A.A. Milne with The Portentous Pooh-Bear-style Capitalizations. #NarrativeNonfiction #Journalism

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Boo👻ze, Food, Travel @boozefoodtravel.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

US #travel pitch call

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Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Perfect example of why Twitter remains more important for journalists/freelancers than Blue Sky: Slate editor Tony Hồ Trần posted this Pitch Call at X. It's not here on Blue Sky. He's here - @tonyhotran.bsky.social - but he's got only 8 followers [I just became his 8th].

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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I commission stories about drawings for @artukdotorg.bsky.social and I'm always looking for pitches! Some fun stories I've published recently: 🧵

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

#Writingtip 1.6: Unless some other logic dominates, many stylists prefer series to flow short to long, similar to classic rhetoric's "tricolon crescendo" (rising isocolon). I.e; Jake the tabby stole arugula & cranberries from the salad. #narrativenonfiction #journalism literarydevices.net/tricolon

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Candace Dempsey @candacedempsey.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Travel writers: what a great way to prepare for 2025. Pitching, follow-up and, yeah, ghosting. Comes with the job. Learn from the best, for free. #journalism #narrativenonfiction #writingtips #travel

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/11/2024

Or… join Bluesky, where links to articles are not deprioritized, journalism soars, and people actually engage thoughtfully instead of hurl slurs.

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

#Writingtip 1.5: Ever wonder how writers devise similes like "the average banana is one-tenth as tall as Danny DeVito?" Here's one spot where the magic happens: www.themeasureofthings.com! #journalism #narrativenonfiction #creativenonfiction

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 22/11/2024

a thing I can't stop thinking about is as traditional media collapsed, more and more reporters who wanted to do the media work they wanted to do started their own thing, and under an anti-free press Trump regime will not be able to afford the legal safeguards of the newsrooms they left when targeted

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"Marion County Record" co-owner Joan Meyer, 98, died of cardiac arrest the day after police raided her home because a reporter searched a public database (a likely First Amendment violation). Check out her son's rallying call for journalism that informs voters and protects democracy.

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Jumping on the #stetpet bandwagon with our founder's monsters here! @edsguild.bsky.social started this adorable hashtag tradition in 2017. The association features critters every Wednesday on its official honor roll. Deets: edsguild.org/stetpet

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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom? @transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:

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Trans Journalists Association

Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their careers.

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Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This is the content that makes journalism great

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

the best thing to happen to journalism in years. while legacy media is blowing it these folks are investigating, providng FACTS, treating readers like adults www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | Our democracy needs a different model for journalism

Informed voters are increasingly an endangered species. ProPublica’s nonprofit model could help save them.

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I wrote about what Laura Helmuth accomplished at Scientific American, and what her resignation means for science journalism, and for me personally defector.com/do-not-accep...

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Do Not Accept An Unscientific American | Defector

Laura Helmuth was named editor-in-chief of Scientific American in March 2020, shortly before the magazine was set to celebrate its 175th year in print. Helmuth, who had previously directed health and ...

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

if you need non-insane, nonTrump centric, nonhyperventilate, fearless journalism consider: give.propublica.org/give/346423/...

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Amanda Castleman @amandacastleman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I'm gearing up for a free #travelwriting webinar with superstars Meera Dattani and @jenrosesmith.bsky.social. Join me in getting heavily caffeinated and talking shop on December 5, 10am EST/7am PST! Grab a ticket here: bit.ly/travelmediaw... #journalism #narrativenonfiction #writingtips #travel

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

#Writingtip 1.3: As Chip Scanlan says, a story should represent the tip of an iceberg: most of the material should remain submerged in your notebook. Check out his classic advice column pubbed @poynterinstitute.bsky.social! #journalism #narrativenonfiction www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

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Jessica Reed @iamjess.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hi! I’m a narrative editor at The Guardian. I’m on leave now but starting December I’ll take pitches (by email plz) for long form (esp w/ narrative arc) and personal essays. I’ll write a pitch guide soon so add me and stay tuned ✌🏼

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American Journalism Project @theajp.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

We’re thrilled to announce 3 new organizations joining our grantee portfolio: @gristnews.bsky.social, @nysfocus.bsky.social and Spotlight Delaware, as well as a new grant to Deep South Today. Here’s more: www.theajp.org/news-insight...

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American Journalism Project invests $5.4 million in four nonprofit local news organizations - Americ...

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American Journalism Project @theajp.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

The hollowing out of local news has left voters less attuned to local issues + given news outlets much less leverage to get answers to questions important to local audiences. @columjournreview.bsky.social on how the collapse of local news has impacted local elections ⬇️

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How the Collapse of Local Newsrooms Made All Politics National

As Iowa’s caucuses kicked into high gear last month, Ron DeSantis followed what once was a winning strategy: he barnstormed the state hard, hitting all ninety-nine counties as he trumpeted his support...

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 29/10/2024

When teaching imperialism, I always prefer to have the people being colonized describe what is happening rather than the colonizers. One of my favorite sources for teaching the British colonization of India is Amrita Lal Roy, a Bengali. 🗺️🗃️

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Write Like a Honey Badger @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#Writing tip 1.2: Strong verbs create action, save space and reveal the players. Use passives VERY sparingly for rhetorical effect or to emphasize oppression or victimization. Choose that voice only for its meaning or music! #journalism #writingtips #creativenonfiction

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Garrie Fletcher @fletchski.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Open 4 submissions for our next anthology, Night Time Economy. Send fiction/creative non-fiction based upon the theme - check website for full details. Submissions close end of January 2024. #writing #writingcommunity #fiction #creativenonfiction www.floodgatepress.co.uk

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HarlemWriter @harlemwriter.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Apply to the #CreativeNonfiction #Workshop by the 01/24/24 MIDNIGHT deadline. bit.ly/1jbfn5v

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 18/11/2024

Across all five social media sites, a majority of news influencers (59%) monetize their following in some way — including offering subscriptions, soliciting donations, or selling merch.

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Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization

A new Pew Research Center report also found nearly 40% of U.S. adults under 30 regularly get news from news influencers.

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