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Sunday, April 10 • 9:00am - 10:20am
Freelance: Choose your platform - focusing social media efforts

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Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, Stitcher: Many journalists use social media platforms to find sources and story ideas, and participating on them is one way that freelancers build and maintain their brands. But how do you choose which social media network to invest your time and identity in? This panel of experienced journalists working in different media, who all maintain presences on multiple social networks, will explain why they chose one network to create a project on, and how they integrate both those projects and other social media use into their multi-faceted professional lives.

Moderators
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Maryn McKenna

Maryn McKenna, an independent journalist based in Atlanta, contributes to National Geographic and writes for Wired, Scientific American, Nature, Slate, The Atlantic and others about public health, global health and food policy. She is the author of the award-winning books “Superbug... Read More →

Speakers
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Rose Eveleth

Rose Eveleth is a journalist who covers how humans tangle with science and technology. She is the host and producer of Flash Forward, a podcast about the future, and has covered everything from fake tumbleweed farms to sexist prosthetics.
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Joanne Manaster

Joanne Manaster, Ph.D., is a faculty lecturer for the School of Integrative Biology at the University of Illinois-Urbana. She is active in new media with a significant social media following. Her 
@sciencegoddess twitter account has been named by Mashable as “One of 25 Twitter... Read More →
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David Mendoza

David Mendoza is a visualization journalist living in Portland, Oregon. He makes maps and charts for Mic, a news outlet for millennials. His data visualizations have also been featured by the Chicago Sun-Times, FiveThirtyEight.com, Slate, Vox and The Washington Post.


Sunday April 10, 2016 9:00am - 10:20am EDT
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