RECORDED WEBINAR - Thursday, November 7th 11am PT / 2pm ET
The Art of Being Edited: How to Receive and Implement Feedback
As freelancers, we’re constantly building new editorial relationships. In this webinar, you’ll learn strategies for working more effectively with editors, including how to receive, respond to, and integrate editorial feedback while advocating for the story you’re telling.
This webinar is free for AIR members. Login to RSVP via Zoom to attend. Non-members must purchase a ticket to reveal the RSVP button.
This webinar is free for AIR members. Login to RSVP via Zoom to attend. Non-members must purchase a ticket to reveal the RSVP button.
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About this webinar
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Thursday, November 7th
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11am PT / 2pm ET
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60 min
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Free for AIR members /
$25 non-members -
This webinar is recorded and made available for AIR members and ticket holders after the recording.
How do you respond to an editors’ note you don't understand, or one you don't agree with? How can you make a compelling case to keep that scene or chunk of tape your editor wants to cut? How do you deal gracefully when you and your editor don’t see eye to eye on something and find a mutually agreeable way forward? Which hills are worth dying on, and how do you pick your battles?
As audio freelancers, we work with a wide range of editors and are constantly building new editorial relationships. In this webinar, you’ll learn strategies for working more effectively with editors, including how to receive, respond to, and integrate editorial feedback while advocating for the story you’re telling.
Key Takeaways
- A better understanding of the editor's role: how editors give feedback and why
- Strategies for responding to feedback you don't understand
- Strategies for responding to feedback you don't agree with
Who is this webinar for?
- Anyone who struggles with receiving feedback
- Anyone who has a hard time standing up for their ideas or advoocating for themselves
Meet the PRESENTER
Susie Armitage
Freelancing since 2017, Susie Armitage has been edited by dozens of audio and print editors. Her work has appeared on NPR, WHYY’s The Pulse, Business Insider’s Brought To You By, Wondery’s Scamfluencers and more. She has been a story editor for numerous narrative podcasts including the Peabody-nominated Kabul Falling, Resistance: Stories from Ukraine, Ritually, The Professor and The Decision Coach. She was previously the Global Managing Editor at BuzzFeed and an editor at Youth Communication, where she edited teen writers. She has worked and traveled extensively across the former Soviet Union, teaching English in Ukraine as a Peace Corps Volunteer, running a theater camp in Tajikistan and reporting from Moscow for NPR. She received a master’s degree from the Newmark J-School at the City University of New York (CUNY) and has taught journalism at Hunter and Lehman Colleges.
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