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Q&A: Designing a Book Cover with Linda Huang and Jack Smyth
Meghan Racklin

For many readers, whether they’re browsing in a bookstore or scrolling on Instagram, a book’s cover is their first encounter with a book, making cover design a crucial part of the process of getting a book into readers’ hands. But for many authors — especially first-time authors new to publishing — the design process can […]
How to Take Vacations as a Freelancer
Luke Ottenhof

Illustration by Brandan Ray Leathead / IG: @brandamsel Halfway through a trip to Colombia in January, my partner and I visited an organic coffee farm just north of Filandia, a small town in Colombia’s coffee region. The farmer, Julián, picked us up from the town square, and on the way to the finca, he told […]
Warming Up To Cold-Calling
Hannah Docter-Loeb

Two months ago, when I was tasked with writing an obituary of a couple and had to reach out to a sister of the deceased, I put off calling for as long as I could. I had scoured the internet for an email address and even sent her a Facebook direct message and request. Cold-calling […]

Digest

You Hurt My Succession
Daniel Spielberger

YOU HURT MY SUCCESSION  The Monday after my sister’s wedding was a blur of bagels and lox and lingering doubt over whether my new orthotics actually work. After alleviating my foot pain with a brunch mimosa, I proceeded to watch two pieces of media about the media — the Succession series finale and A24’s literati […]
Setting The Scale
Willy Blackmore

  After months of media news dominated by layoffs and site closures, there was a story of a different kind last week: a new website launched, The Messenger, which has the grand aspiration to scale up to 100 million monthly uniques, which (as Nieman Lab’s Joshua Benton pointed out) is a little less than the […]
Writers Unions Are Gearing Up for a Fight With AI
Rebecca Heilweil

  This is the first installment of Automate Me, an ongoing Study Hall series about how AI technology is transforming the media and publishing landscape. Lately, it seems like every newsroom is announcing plans to experiment with generative AI, the class of artificial intelligence that can produce text that reads like it was written by a […]

Knowledge

How To Land a Narrative Feature
Ian Frisch

I’ve been asked to write up a primer on how I find, develop, and execute narrative features. This request was sparked by my most recent article, for The Verge about a guy who, after discovering his Tinder date was the honeypot in a brazen car-theft scam, teamed up with a self-proclaimed “police informant” to con […]
A Newbie’s Guide To Navigating Upwork
Brandon Summers-Miller
Study Hall Guide to Reporting on Abortion
Anna Furman
The Big Idea with Vaughn Stafford Gray
Sara Clemence
Photo by Neslihan Gunaydin on Unsplash
The Big Idea with Zach St. George
Sara Clemence
Photo by Dannie Jing on Unsplash
Rahel Aima on Criticism That Faces a Different Way
Evan Kleekamp
Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash
How to Set Up a Freelance Master Doc to Keep Track of All Your Pitches
Rachel Simon

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