Journalism and Women Symposium – JAWS Auction 2014
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How To Pitch To Magazines 101 with Linda Kramer Jenning

Item Number
218
Estimated Value
Priceless
Sold
140 USD to cca4e4cf2
Number of Bids
5  -  Bid History

Item Description

Always wanted to write for magazines, but weren't sure how to pitch the best story and where to pitch it? Washington editor for Glamour, Linda Kramer Jenning, will provide the winner with an hour coaching session via Skype on how to craft the perfect pitch followed up by a review and edit of your written pitch.

Linda Kramer Jenning is the Washington editor for Glamour and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University where she teaches graduate courses on feature writing and interviewing. Her work at Glamour focuses on issues that touch the lives of the magazine¿s 12.3 million readers and on projects like the annual Glamour Women of the Year honors. She covered both national conventions for the magazine and has written articles on former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and on the key young women working on the presidential campaigns. Before Glamour, she was deputy bureau chief for People where she routinely worked with freelancers on honing their pitches.