Fainaru tosses first pitch at City College event
(Story by Sara Steffens and Rebecca Rosen Lum, Photos by Russ Cain)
About 120 participants gathered Saturday at City College of San Francisco for the first “Spring Training for Journalists,” a daylong workshop we hope will become an annual tradition for news staffers, freelancers and students throughout our region.
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Whether you’re a newsroom veteran, a newcomer or a seasoned freelancer, surviving in journalism now means taking your future into your own hands.
If you’re ready to upgrade your skills and reinvent your career, join us at our inaugural:
Spring Training for Journalists
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday April 24
SF City College – Ocean Campus
50 Phelan Avenue
San Francisco.
A top-notch [...]

Veteran CPA Jason Stallcup will help Guild Freelancers learn how to keep more of what we earn at a lunch seminar — including plenty of time to ask questions — Friday, Dec. 11 at our Guild offices in San Francisco.
Over the past 17 years, Jason has seen the number of people filing as freelancers skyrocket.
“There [...]

At our November unit meeting, Guild Freelancers unanimously elected longtime reporter Rebecca Rosen Lum as our first unit chair.
Rosen Lum, a San Francisco resident who formerly covered religion for the Contra Costa Times, already has devoted countless hours to help build our unit. She never shies from a challenge, be it setting up our lunchtime [...]

Join us for our unit’s first lunchtime workshop, on writing, publishing and promoting a nonfiction book.
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20
at our Guild offices, 433 Natoma Street in San Francisco
(just behind the Chronicle building).
Our panelists will be three longtime newspaper writers:

Sports journalist  and feature writer Joan Ryan, whose most recent book is “The Water Giver.”
Film [...]