8-Week: Freelance Like a Pro—Fast, Focused Nonfiction

Producing stories quickly in various genres is a must-have skill for freelance newspaper, magazine, and online writers. But doing so without sacrificing style, accuracy, and quality requires planning. Each week, we'll brainstorm story ideas, pitch them, and learn to focus our reporting and write efficiently. We'll explore short personal essays, cultural reviews, obituaries, profiles, breaking news, listicles, explainers, and more. Writers will leave the course with story ideas to pitch to editors and strategies to land and deliver assignments.