Freelance Reporting Workshop

Hear from our expert panelists:

• (Moderator) Abigail Hakas — Managing editor of the Latrobe Bulletin and former freelance journalist in Pittsburgh.
• Natalie Bencivenga — An award-winning independent journalist and entreprenuer, featured in local publications and national outlets like MSNBC and Fox News.
• Aakanksha Agarwal — A wine, travel and lifestyle writer whose work can be found in Public Source, Pittsburgh Magazine and Pittsburgh Review of Books, as well as West Coast and national publications.
• Ethan Beck — Pittsburgh-born, Brooklyn-based writer whose work can be found in the Washington Post, Paste Magazine, Public Source and more.
• Matt Petras — Visiting Lecturer of English at the University of Pittsburgh and a freelance journalist with bylines in Public Source, City Paper, The Daily Beast, Kotaku and more.

Topic areas: pitching, negotiating compensation, curating your personal brand, reporting process.

The panel will be followed by an audience Q&A. Attendees are encouraged to bring pitch ideas to the workshop.

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