Your Career as a Freelance Journalist

As a freelance journalist you can earn very good money while working in one of the most interesting, exciting and rewarding careers around.

What’s more, there’s plenty of demand for good, reliable journalists. Editors are always on the look out for reporters and writers with a fresh approach and new ideas. In the next few weeks alone, they will pay thousands of pounds to freelance journalists – and with our help you could be one of them.

Contrary to popular opinion, you do not need any special background or writing experience to become a freelance journalist. People from all walks of life are making a good living writing about subjects that interest them from consumer affairs to environmental issues, cookery to celebrity interviews. Plus, if an editor finds you reliable and likes your copy you could easily be offered a regular column or commissions.

The freelance journalism course we offer you, the personal tuition service and your Guarantees are fully explained in our Prospectus which you can download below. But, for a quick overview browse the tabs above.

Your Course

To help you become a successful freelance journalist we offer you a comprehensive, home study freelance journalism course – written by professionals.

All aspects of journalism are covered include

You learn how to: sell your work; how to influence editors and publishers; plus, techniques that can make all the difference between rejection and success.

Opportunities for the freelance in TV and radio and how to get a full-time staff job are also covered.

Your course contains: 28 fascinating study modules and 15 writing assignments – marked by your personal tutor.

Click here to read a full synopsis

Your studies are very flexible. You can study wherever you are – in the UK or abroad. You can adapt your study to suit your timetable. You can work when it suits you and you can start as soon as you are ready as there is no fixed enrolment date.

Your course materials are sent to you as soon as you enrol and are available immediately in the student community area when you enrol online.

You send and receive your assignments by post or by email – the choice is yours.

And, to make your course really effective you also receive personal guidance and advice from your tutor – a professional published writer. To find out more click the 'Tuition' tab above.

Your Personal Tuition

Undoubtedly, the best way to learn how to write great copy for the right market is by doing it yourself, under the guidance of an expert tutor. This hands-on experience is essential to develop your writing and journalistic skills. Because of this, your assignments are specially designed to get you writing copy that you can submit to editors as soon as your tutor advises.

You also receive advice on: style, subject matter, grammar, presentation and anything else that matters. You will be told how to improve your work – if improvement is necessary – and how to avoid the common errors and mistakes that many beginners make.

Your tutor will encourage you, be objective, be realistic but most of all give you constructive comment. This one-to-one guidance gives you a trusting and open environment to work in; so much so, that many students come to consider their tutor as a real friend as well as a mentor.

All our tutors are successful freelance journalists. Each one is an experienced tutor who has been specially trained by us to help you overcome the difficulties, and the pitfalls, that all new freelancers face. From their own experiences they can help you to start writing, find new ideas and produce the sort of copy that sells.

Click 'Selling' above for more details on how we can help you to sell your work.

Selling Your Writing

One of the biggest problems all new freelancers face is where and how to sell their work. Don't let this worry you for now. A whole module is devoted to selling your writing and your tutor will advise you as needed throughout your course.

We show you:

• how to find markets and exploit them
• how to present your work
• when to send covering letters
• how to protect your copyright
• how to deal with editors and publishers

Plus, much more to give your writing the best possible chance of being published.

Once your copy reaches a publishable standard you should have no difficulty selling it. Follow our advice carefully, do everything we ask of you, and we are confident that you will soon be a published freelance journalist.

Your Guarantees

Because of the effectiveness of the course, and the tuition service, we are able to give you three no-risk guarantees.

These state quite clearly:

1. If you have not earned your tuition fees from published writing within six months of completing your course, your full fees will be refunded.
2. You have the course on 15 day (in your possession) inspection.
3. We will give you a $15.00 refund for any assignment which is not corrected properly by your tutor.

These guarantees are your safeguard of a fair deal and high tuition standards from The Writers Bureau College of Journalism. They are our commitment to you.

Providing you play your part, you really can't lose! Either you will earn, as a minimum, the tuition fees (and we hope a lot more), or you will receive your money back in full.

Your Contribution

We can do a lot to help you but we can’t do it all for you. In fact, the major contribution must come from you.

In addition to your writing talent, you also need enthusiasm and perseverance. But you do not need to be either particularly gifted or very clever. There are many otherwise ordinary people, from ordinary backgrounds who, with determination and perseverance, have had a lot of fun, enjoyment and extra money from their career as a freelance journalist.

So, if you really want to fulfil your journalistic ambitions and you are prepared to put in the time and effort required, then together we can help you turn your ambitions into reality.

Your Certificate

A Certificate of Achievement is awarded to all successful students. You qualify for your Certificate as soon as you have earned your course fees from published writing. This may be near the beginning of your course, somewhere in the middle, or near the end. Whenever it is, you can be rightly proud of it and, we hope, it will be the start of better things to come.

How To Enrol

If you truly want to be a freelance writer there is no time like the present to start. It would be tragic to do nothing and then look back in a few years’ time and say, ‘If only…’ On the other hand, by enrolling now, you could be seeing your name in print in only a few short months.

And remember, anybody can enrol on the Freelance Journalism course. You do not need any special qualifications or background and you can start whenever it suits you.

So, click the enrol button below, Fax 00 44 161 236 9440 or complete the enrolment form and let’s start working together to help you become a successful freelance journalist!

If you don’t have a credit card click here to find out how to send your fees to England.

Course Fees:

Full fees: $450

Easy Payment Plan: $50 deposit payable now and $70 a month for the following 6 months making $470 in all.