The Not-so-Easy Life of a Freelance Journalist

Some tips on how to survive editors and rejection departing from personal experience

Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readJul 27, 2019

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Being a freelance journalist is not easy. Aside from the competition (that is getting worse as layoffs from major websites are becoming a common trend), we have to deal with editors who often ghost you and expect you to pitch them stories that…

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Journalist, PhD in Human Rights (University of Deusto). MA in Communication Sciences, BA in International Relations. www.tsavkko.com.br