The Yorkshire Freelance email list

An "e-list" has been set up so that freelances in the Yorkshire region can communicate easily with one another.

Joining is simple: send this message - yorksfreejourn-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Membership is "restricted", so you may receive an e-mail from me asking you to confirm your freelance status and membership of one of the NUJ branches in the Yorkshire region.

Any member can post a message to the list, so informing every freelance who has joined takes only one e-mail and you don't need to keep your own mailing lists.

Please respect reasonable journalistic standards when you send messages, however frustrating it may be when you want to say what you really think about a commissioning editor who has broken a promise or a payment that is weeks overdue.

I will post details of FIC meetings - including agendas in advance and summaries afterwards.

Please use the list to update others about, for example, who is - or is not - hiring for shifts, buying material, is cutting budgets, what technology changes are in the offing and so on and so forth. Nothing is off limits if it is relevant to freelance journalists.

Perhaps best of all, the system includes an automated diary which sends out reminder messages before events that have been entered.

I will list FIC meetings and members will get messages about the agenda in advance, giving them time to contact Yorkshire FIC member Adam Christie or the NUJ's Freelance Organiser John Toner with any items they want discussed.

Regular events, such as branch meetings, can also be added - with a single entry covering those that take place regularly!

Please do enter details of events that may interest freelances in Yorkshire.

Also, messages are automatically saved and archived, so they are there for reference - and these newsletters will be uploaded as "pdf" files too.

Adam Christie