Behind the Byline: Navigating Challenges and Improving Working Conditions for Freelance Journalists

Sick of kill fees? Fed up with payment upon publication? Cross about having to sign unfair contracts and waiting months to get paid?

Join us at lunchtime on 26 November for a free webinar to discuss some of the biggest challenges freelancers face, along with our newly launched Freelance Guidance for Editors, which advocates for fairer treatment and improved working conditions. Connect with fellow-minded freelancers and learn how to put these guidelines to practical use in your freelance career. The event will also explain more about the Freelance Journalism Survey of the working lives of freelance journalists, which is being conducted by Freelancing for Journalists. Take part here: https://forms.gle/Q4zEby7MArehnDBFA.

Panellists will include:

• Donna Ferguson (award-winning freelance journalist and committee member of Women in Journalism
• Charlotte Tobitt (UK Editor, Press Gazette)
• Lily Canter (co-founder of Freelancing for Journalists, the UK's largest freelance journalism community)