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Programme
Freelance Journalism Assembly
The Freelance Journalism Assembly was born in 2020 to empower and connect the freelance community in Europe. The programme is run by the European Journalism Centre with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In 2020, the Assembly brought together more than 1.700 freelance journalists from 47 countries through 13 training sessions and more than 180 mentorships that provided the freelance community with tools and skills to improve their coverage.
Collaboration is the overarching topic of the Assembly. In that spirit, the EJC is joining forces with other organisations that support freelancers across Europe. We are proud of a growing list of partners who have joined our Assembly network. Together, we created a growing movement that is empowering the freelance community in Europe.
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Outcomes
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A handbook for pitching development stories
The guide is primarily intended to support freelance journalists in improving their pitches and chances of being commissioned and/or hired b
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A freelancer’s guide to reporting on poverty
Freelance journalists can help improve coverage of poverty reduction by pitching stories that offer new angles on this topic or interrogate
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A freelancer’s guide to reporting on climate change
For freelance journalists, reporting on environmental issues and climate change is a chance to cover a diverse range of stories, places and
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A freelancer’s guide to reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals
For freelance journalists, the goals, the rate of progress on their targets, how communities and governments are working on them present a w
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A freelancer’s guide to reporting on refugees and migration
For freelance journalists, reporting on migration and refugees is a chance to tell deeply human stories and encourage a greater understand
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A freelancer’s guide to solutions journalism
Freelancers who report on solutions to social challenges may find new angles to stories that can separate them from the crowd, find new co
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How the European Journalism Centre is funded, and why your support is needed
How the European Journalism Centre is funded, why most of our work is co-funded, and why flexible support is essential to sustain journalism
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The work we want to continue and why we need your support now
We are writing to you today because the funding landscape around us is changing. These changes affect the scope and depth of the work we can
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6 things we learned from the Freelance Journalism Assembly
Despite the increasing challenges, freelancers continue to be a vital workforce within the journalism space.