Thursday, June 16, 2011

What are the main responsibilities of a freelance journalist?


What are the main responsibilities of a freelance journalist?
When a freelance journalist gets a job, what are his or her main responsibilities to complete the job? What kind of research do they need to do? What elements do they need to use in their writing style in order to relay a full, unbiased version of the facts? About how many hours or days does it take to complete an average job?
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A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a self-employed person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any particular employer. The term "freelance" was first coined by Sir Walter Scott (1771รข€“1832) in his well-known historical romance Ivanhoe to describe a "medieval mercenary warrior" (or "free-lance"). The phrase later transitioned to a figurative noun around the 1860s and was then officially recognized as a verb in 1903 by various authorities in etymology such as the Oxford English Dictionary. Only in modern times has the term morphed from a noun (a freelance) into an adjective (a freelance journalist), various verb forms (a journalist who freelances), and an adverb (she worked freelance), and then from the verb into the derived, now commonly used, noun form "freelancer


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