Taking the freelance editing plunge

Apr 6, 2015 by jgordon@unitedmediaguild.org

The newspaper industry has turned lots of highly skilled copy editors loose in the marketplace.

So how do they find their way as freelancers? Former St. Louis Post-Dispatch copy editor David Sheets offered this advice to the American Journalism Review:

“It mostly started out with me talking to people that I knew and asking them to get the word out that I was doing this. But it also required a lot of networking and going out in the community meeting people I didn’t know but kind of knew needed the work that I had to offer.”

For more on making this transition to freelance editing, check out the AJR article.