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Online forums catering to professional writers were a major help to me when I was just starting out. But they can be somewhat hard to discover if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Here are a few that really worked well for me.

TweetA New York City-based writer and editor with more than a decade’s worth of experience in print and online media, I’ve written for the New York Times, People, TeenPeople, American Way, ABC News, Premiere, Modern Bride, The Daily Beast, and other major national publications. With a fat rolodex of entertainment contacts, well-honed reporting, writing and editorial skills and a knack for project (and people!) management, I’m the girl to call for celebrity scoop and poignant profiles. But I can also pull together a quick personality-driven gift guide, round up real women’s recession-busting financial tips, blog …

Tweet With Budget Cuts Across the Board, Can We Afford to Write for a Living?
There's been big discussion on a few of my writers' groups this week about major magazines and other publications recently chopping their freelance rates due to budget cuts. What's worse, some media outlets are eliminating their freelance budgets all together.
Now, before you go thinking all of us freelance writers were raking in the big bucks before the economic downturn, know that standard per-word rates have stagnated at a buck (or, if you're really lucky, two) …

Tweet Could the Recession Mean the End of the Media World As We Know It?
Today, the New York Times Company nearly killed its esteemed New England newspaper, The Boston Globe. The paper was saved from the brink of extinction by severe negotiations with newspapering unions, which agreed to company-wide paycuts in order to stabilize the Globe‘s bottom line. The Times’ is also requiring its own staffers to take a mandatory five percent paycut. Meanwhile, the Baltimore Sun laid off 61 staffers and late last week, Conde Nast folded it’s business …