Description
In this webinar which took place on 26 September 2024, freelance travel journalist and editor Qin Xie who also writes the financially savvy Money Talk newsletter on Substack, freelance journalists Lily Canter and Emma Wilkinson, co-founders of the Freelancing for Journalists community, newsletter and award-winning podcast, and freelance travel journalist and travel editor Meera Dattani shared their tips, hacks and advice on how they make freelancing work harder for them in an action-orientated webinar that aims to motivate anyone who needs a freelance refresh or reset, or wants to know how other freelancers manage their time, business and work. More on the panellists below.
About the topic
As any travel freelancer knows, there’s more to travel writing than heading off on a trip and writing it up. And ultimately, whatever area of freelancing you’re in, it’s certainly about more than the writing. The aim of this webinar was to share tips and advice on how to make freelancing work smarter and harder for you. How do other freelancers manage their pitches, organise their time, maximise productivity, stay on top of finance and other admin? What hacks – tech, apps, analogue or otherwise – do they use to make freelancing less stressful and their businesses more successful (translation: more money!)? The webinar included a Q&A session.
This was the sixth in a series of webinars curated and hosted by Travel Writing Webinars founder Meera Dattani. Thanks to Talking Travel Writing who support and promote these events. TTW is a Substack newsletter that promises to demystify the travel media for freelancers forging a career in travel writing. Follow on Twitter.
This webinar was sponsored by Adventure Travel Networking (ATN), an award-winning organisation founded by Pru Goudie that promotes adventure and experiential travel with a positive impact. As well as an annual two-day hybrid Conference & Marketplace in London (2025 dates: 25 and 27 February), the twice-a-year spring/autumn ATN Media Meet-up connects the adventure travel community with key travel media during an informal networking event with a panel session. If you write about positive impact adventure/experiential travel, contact Pru via the webform.
About the panellists
Qin Xie is a freelance writer and editor based in London specialising in food and travel. She writes regularly for The Times, The Telegraph, Condé Nast Traveller, and National Geographic Travel. Her side hustle is Money Talk, a smart newsletter to help you save money and grow wealth, and, believe it or not, she loves jetlag – being awake when everyone else is asleep means there are no distractions to work.
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Lily Canter is a freelance journalist specialising in running, fitness and adventure travel. She writes for Runner’s World, Women’s Health, Metro, the South China Morning Post and The Guardian. She is co-founder of Freelancing for Journalists, a community and newsletter which supports people in all stages of their freelance journalism career, co-host of the FFJ podcast, and a journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.
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Emma Wilkinson is an award-winning freelance journalist specialising in medicine and health. She started out in staff jobs at The Lancet, Pulse and BBC News online but has now been freelance for 18 years. Much of her writing can be found in the trade and specialist press. Emma is also the co-founder of Freelancing for Journalists, a community and newsletter which supports people in all stages of their freelance journalism career, co-host of the FFJ podcast, an associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, and vice-chair of the Medical Journalists’ Association.
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Meera Dattani (host) is the founder of Travel Writing Webinars, executive editor at Adventure.com, and a freelance travel and culture journalist with bylines in National Geographic Traveller, Condé Nast Traveller, the i paper, Wanderlust, BBC Travel, Evening Standard, and others. Former Chair and Events Director of the British Guild of Travel Writers, she is also a mentor, awards judge, and a speaker and moderator on external panels about travel writing, DEI and the travel industry.
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