Level Up Your Writing Career in 2025 ✍🏾

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Damon Brown
December 04, 2024

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Hi reader,

Writing is one of those few acts that doesn’t require other people to tell you how to do it.

You don’t need a tutor to share the basics of a sentence (you probably already understand them, if not know their names).

You don’t need a certification to practice writing.

You just begin.

Now, making a living as a writer is a whole different subject.

I got two degrees in journalism, but I didn’t learn how to build a writing career until after I was out of school, got my knees well scrapped from freelancing, and built up a network of trusted organizations and folks who helped me create a business.

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One of the resources I wish I had when I started (cough) decades ago was the Institute for Independent Journalists. I’ve known founder Katherine Reynolds Lewis for almost as long as I’ve been freelancing. I love her new, inclusive take on what defines good, important journalism, and even spoke at her IIJ conference in previous years.

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Here’s the breakdown: Engage in 12 information-packed, interactive sessions on pitching, harnessing artificial intelligence, funding your journalism, podcasting, boosting your income, and more. On day one, keynote speaker and author Celeste Headlee will share her experiences working in mainstream media (NPR, PBS, WNYC), as well as independently. Learn directly from editors what they want in a pitch, including from Bloomberg, the New York Times, Washington Post, Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and more. Fellowship directors will explain how to get funding for an important journalism project. The best way to weather a storm is together.

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Feb. 27-28, 2025

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🙋🏾 I’m Damon! (http://www.damonbrown.net) I help side hustlers, solopreneurs & others like yourself bloom. As a bestselling author, 2x startup founder & 4x TEDTalker, I co-founded the popular connection app Cuddlr and led it to acquisition within a year while being a stay at home dad with my infant son.

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