Make Freelance Journalism
A Profitable Full or Part-time Career
Or, a Profitable Sideline
We'll Show You How.

Thank you for your interest in the “Professional Freelance Journalism” Course. This Course is conducted totally on-line, via distance learning, over your choice of 12 or 24 weeks and leads to your Diploma in “Professional Freelance Journalism”.

The following Course outline will provide you with more comprehensive details.

At the outset, we would like to explain that the “Professional Freelance Journalism” Course is not simply a course in creative writing.

The American College of Journalism has developed this Course to ensure that you achieve professional writing skills. And, get paid for your efforts. Consider for a moment the immense satisfaction of being published. And the sheer fun and excitement of seeing your first income.

Your success in this Course will provide you with a guaranteed way to earn income from anywhere in the world or sitting at your own kitchen table ... for the rest of your life!

Freelance journalism offers one of the few remaining opportunities for individual freedom, self-expression and financial gain. It's also a lot of fun and can lead to varying degrees of fame and fortune.

About The Course

A successful writer does not have to be gifted. Every freelance journalist was once a complete beginner. Success in freelance journalism is very much a matter of knowing how to go about it.

The “Professional Freelance Journalism” Course has been designed to develop your individual writing skills. Your own professional goals and areas of interest are of primary importance to the College.

At the beginning of the Course you are assigned an individual tutor experienced in the areas of professional writing that most interest you. We also ensure your tutor has an in-depth knowledge of the “local” market for which you intend writing. You and your tutor work together to develop story ideas and writing approaches relating specifically to these areas.

These might include human interest, travel, entertainment, business and finance, fashion, sport, history, health and fitness, politics and world affairs, the environment, or any of the other hundreds of subjects of interest to readers. Naturally if you choose to pursue any number of writing subjects we are there to help.

What You Will Achieve

The “Professional Freelance Journalism” Course is designed to get you published as quickly as possible. From your first assignments, you are developing your own story ideas, editing them from first draft to finished copy, and submitting them to newspapers and magazines.

The Course is not only structured to teach you the techniques of freelance journalism. It's also intended to get you published and paid for your efforts. Stated simply, you’ll know how to write and sell a vast range of subject matter to the thousands of newspapers and magazines that buy freelance material.

Further, you’ll know how to profit from all the other little-known but highly lucrative areas of freelance writing. For example, you’ll know how to develop and write material for the Internet together with newsletters, publicity material, company reports, in-house journals and much more.

There is an insatiable demand for freelance material. 99% of magazines and newspapers rely heavily, if not exclusively, on freelance contributions. When you know what the craft requires you will have a highly marketable skill which you can use for a full or part-time career or as a profitable sideline.

I would also like to point out the opportunity that exists, at the completion of your Course, for accreditation with our parent company, International News Syndicate. This is more fully explained later in this document.

The Qualifications

Apart from a command of the English language, the qualifications are simple and straightforward:

1. An interest in writing
2. Enthusiasm
3. The willingness to learn

If you have these qualities, the American College of Journalism will provide you with the professional skills required.

Course Details

The next Course in “Professional Freelance Journalism” commences on:

Monday 15 December 2008

Your Guarantees

Here at the American College of Journalism we probably derive almost as much pleasure from a student's success as the student does.

We sincerely want you to be able to participate in this Course, but realize it's also something of an exciting step into the unknown. Hence, we are pleased to be able to extend four iron-clad guarantees.

1. 7-day Free Examination! You may examine the first tutorial with absolutely no obligation for seven days. If you decide for any reason not to proceed, simply notify the College within seven days for a full refund.

2. If you fail to obtain your Diploma, your Course fees will be refunded in full. Read the terms and conditions of this offer at the bottom of your Application Form.

3. If you have not received your Course fees or more from your first three paid assignments, we'll refund the difference.

4. We'll also continue working with you until you sell your first material. Certainly, you can expect to be published by the end of this Course. However, if for any reason you haven't seen your name and material in print, we'll keep working with you until you receive your first payment. Even if it takes a year!

Important note: We are not aware of any other training course that offers these guarantees. Our goal is to make you a paid professional. By definition, this occurs with your first sale. We will continue working with you every step of the way, until this important moment.

How to Enroll

Please act promptly if you wish to enroll in this Course. Vacancies are quickly filled and enrollment numbers are limited by the workload of our tutors.

Note: Please ensure that you also complete the “Tutor Information” form. This allows the College to assess your application more quickly and also provides us with valuable background information about yourself and what you want to achieve.

You will receive e-mail confirmation of our acceptance of your Enrollment Application within 48 hours. In the event of your application not being approved no monies will be deducted from your credit card.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you every success with your proposed freelance writing career. You can now make this become an exciting reality.

Yours sincerely,

Peta Fraser
Registrar

P.S. If you wish to enroll in the “Professional Freelance Journalism” Course, please act now. Course vacancies are very limited and enrollment applications are considered in the order they are received.