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Freelance Quick-Start Guide

Envision Success

Understand the steps needed to reach your goals and craft a strategy for getting there.

Make a Plan

Exercises take you through the main decision points for creating a sustainable practice.
Learn to get up and running as a freelancer. Prioritize the most important steps to take. Craft a durable strategy.

What's included?

  • 5 Modules
  • 1 Certification
  • 12 Exercises
  • 22 Videos
  • 11 PDFs and Tools

Craft a Sustainable Practice

You will learn how to develop, organize and implement a freelance journalism strategy, analyze the industry, create a marketing plan, and implement systems for success.

Personal brand

The guide will show you how to put the ideas presented to you into action and build your own personal brand and niche for independent work.
Meet the instructor

Katherine Reynolds Lewis

Katherine Reynolds Lewis is the founder of the Institute for Independent Journalists, special projects editor for Greater Good Magazine, and a columnist for Nieman Reports. She’s an award-winning science journalist, educator and author who's been a full-time freelancer since 2008, with bylines in the Atlantic, NY Times, Undark, and Washington Post. Her book, The Good News About Bad Behavior, grew out of Mother Jones’ most-read story. A Harvard physics graduate, Katherine is a former national correspondent for Newhouse and Bloomberg News.
Patrick Jones - Course author