Women in Journalism is launching an exciting new lunchtime series for freelance journalists with the award-winning freelance journalist, Donna Ferguson.
The series was aimed at freelance journalists who don’t have a lot of contacts in the industry and want to cold pitch an editor and get their first byline in national newspapers and magazines.
We invited top editors who regularly commission articles from freelancers they don’t know to talk about their regular slots and opportunities for freelancers, and explain how to write the best possible pitch for their section.
The second session was with Liz Edwards, senior commissioning editor for The Sunday Times Magazine.
About the speakers
Donna Ferguson is a multiple award-winning freelance journalist for national newspapers and Head of the Freelance Chapter for Women in Journalism.
Liz Edwards is senior commissioning editor for The Sunday Times Magazine where she has particular responsibility for the health and fitness pieces (plus beer for balance), and previously commissioned the Life in the Day and Relative Values interviews. She also writes features, reviews and comment pieces across the paper. She is on secondment from her role as assistant editor on the travel desk.
