A Day in the Life of Paul Tullis | The Open Notebook

Curious about the life of a freelance journalist? Paul Tullis, one of the 12 Logan Science Journalism Fellows arriving at MBL in May, reveals survival tricks of the trade in this interview -- including moving to Amsterdam!

What I’m working on:

My strategy is to be pitching a story, reporting a story, writing a story, revising a story, and closing a story at the same time, all the time. It keeps the income flow regular. If any of the buckets are empty, the only solution is obviously to pitch more. So right now I have three pitches out, I’m working on two more, I’m reporting a story for NYT, writing a 1200-word piece for Businessweek, revising a feature for Town & Country, and waiting for copyedits on a big explanatory feature for Hakai. Read the full story.

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