Freelancers

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• New Ways to Make Journalism Pay

  30 January 2010, by Annabel Simms

  Unofficial report on the NUJ conference, London, 16 January

  
  

• The ’experiment’ to kill off professional travel guide writing

  8 October 2009, by Jim Pollard

  Background, links and our ADM motion on the carve-up that sees WH Smith Travel agree to stock only Penguin guides.

  
  

• Auto-entrepreneur - The new ’statut’ that gives you a license to bill

  17 April 2009, by Simon Coss

  Updated introduction to a new scheme designed to make it easier for people to set themselves up as self-employed workers in France. Vital reading for freelances.

  
  

• Police confiscate press card

  7 April 2009, by Alison Culliford
  

• The Demise of French News

  20 February 2009, by Jacqueline Karp

  When I joined French News which has now closed down in 2007 as local correspondent for Charente-Maritime, it was already an institution.

  
  

• French English: The English-language Press of France

  5 February 2009, by Nick Inman

  Half-British, half-French, there’s a class of newspaper and magazine which defies categorisation and yet is useful to know about

  
  

• A strong pitch for Pitch And Deal

  8 March 2008, by Annabel Simms

  Annabel Simms reports on the NUJ’s popular Pitch and Deal course designed to give freelances the tools they need to turn ideas in commissions.

  
  

• So you want to Freelance in France?

  12 October 2007, by Jim Pollard

  The only way you can avoid being sent into battle with French bureaucracy is to be declared insane but anyone who tries to avoid French bureaucracy cannot be all mad. It’s le catch vingt deux.