{"id":1292,"date":"2008-02-06T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T23:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/freelancers-journalists-can-connect-on-reporteristcom\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T19:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:17:58","slug":"freelancers-journalists-can-connect-on-reporteristcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/freelancers-journalists-can-connect-on-reporteristcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Freelancers, journalists can connect on Reporterist.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Typical problem for freelancers:<\/strong> When they\u00a0pitch an article to an editor, they must wait to\u00a0hear back from that\u00a0editor before they can pitch elsewhere. But a response can take days and maybe even weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Typical problem for editors:<\/strong> With staff cutbacks, they&#8217;re relying on good freelancers more than ever.\u00a0 And timeliness is still an issue. Some editors receive\u00a0more than 500 emails a day, so how can they quickly find the emails from the freelancers whose work they might buy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution for both:<\/strong>\u00a0Reporterist.com,\u00a0 a news exchange where freelancers and editors can connect. As a journalist, you can upload your work and submit it to a specific publication, like an\u00a0article about hiking to an outdoor magazine, and\u00a0give editors\u00a0two weeks to view the story and decide to publish it.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about it in the Online Journalism Review article\u00a0&#8220;What if there were an eBay for news?&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A tip of the hat to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/category\/latest-news\/mediawire\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Poynter Online&#8217;s Jim Romenesko <\/a>for this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typical problem for freelancers: When they\u00a0pitch an article to an editor, they must wait to\u00a0hear back from that\u00a0editor before they can pitch elsewhere. But a response can take days and maybe even weeks. Typical problem for editors: With staff cutbacks, they&#8217;re relying on good freelancers more than ever.\u00a0 And timeliness is still an issue. Some\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/freelancers-journalists-can-connect-on-reporteristcom\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":638,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[604],"class_list":{"0":"post-1292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"tag-writing-articles","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41638,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/41638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}