The Writing Coach Podcast 79: Covering coronavirus

WCP79 Covering coronavirus

Some freelancers are having stories postponed, killed, or ignored due to the spread of coronavirus. Let’s look at how to protect yourself from shifting editorial plans, as well as look at stories that can be assigned now. Feature opportunities abound in how COVID-19 is impacting different segments of the population in your geographic area as well as virtually any niche you normally cover.

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Some freelancers are having stories postponed, killed, or ignored due to the spread of coronavirus. Let’s look at how to protect yourself from shifting editorial plans, as well as look at stories that can be assigned now.

Feature opportunities abound in how COVID-19 is impacting different segments of the population in your geographic area as well as virtually any niche you normally cover.

This is the right time to use The Mashup, the idea generation technique where we ask what happens when X meets Y and Z is more than the sum of its parts.

 

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