Freelance Contracts: A Public-Interest Roundtable

Join Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein, former Bloomberg News Global Media Counsel Charles Glasser, freelance investigative reporter Alexandria Bordas and Freelance Investigative Reporters and Editors (FIRE) executive director Laird Townsend for a lively roundtable discussion on investigative freelance contracts, with special emphasis on legal liabilities and indemnification.

The event will sound out a range of public-interest solutions to liability and other contractual challenges, featuring tips, tactics and hard-won insight from decades of freelance journalism—along with two newly unveiled tools for the field.

Applicable to all freelance journalists and the editors who hire them.

Moderated by FIRE Freelance Program Coordinator and Society of Professional Journalists Freelance Community Chair Hilary Niles. Please address any advance inquiry or observation here (all submissions will be handled confidentially unless otherwise arranged).

When: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. ET.

More information here.

• Watch the recording by filling out this quick form, which helps us understand more about the landscape of legal liabilities for freelancers.
• Check out the new FIRE Contract Template, free to download with just a quick form to request access.