Webinar: Stability Through Self-Employment in Journalism: Cultivating Versatility, Embracing Uncertainty by NAA Career Webinar Series

on-demand webinar

About this Webinar

Working for yourself is inherently risky—but so is traditional employment, as the last few pandemic years have underscored. In certain industries, like journalism, volatility and retrenchment have been the norm for more than a decade. How can we insulate ourselves from the surprises and stresses of an unpredictable world of work? How can we find opportunity and self-reinvention amidst uncertainty, instead of viewing it as a threat? Self-employment is one answer, at least for those with skills ripe for freelancing and consulting. In this webinar, Gantz will offer lessons from his career journey thus far, explaining how steps that felt uncomfortable (even defeating) can set the stage for valuable opportunities years later. Letting go of old dreams and career preconceptions while cultivating curiosity and versatile skills can open new doors—and ultimately help redefine what a career can and should be.

Presenter

Jeremy Gantz

Jeremy Gantz ’08 MS has more than 15 years of experience working as a writer and editor at newspapers and magazines. He spent much of 2022 working for TIME, where he was a lead editor of the magazine's Best Inventions of 2022 cover package.

A freelance writer and editor whose work spans the worlds of journalism, nonprofits and content marketing, Gantz is a contributing editor (and former staff editor) at the progressive monthly magazine In These Times, where he focused on labor issues. Current regular clients include the national nonprofit Results for America and the Economist Intelligence Unit. Gantz edited The Age of Inequality (2017, Verso), an anthology exploring the rise of economic inequality in the U.S. since the 1970s.

Before embracing the freelance life, Gantz was an executive editor at Chicago-based content marketing agency Imagination, where he managed production of magazines published by the Project Management Institute, AmeriHealth and other clients. He also worked in Chicago City Colleges' communications department, and as a newspaper reporter in Massachusetts and Cambodia. Gantz graduated from Carleton College with a B.A. degree in history, after which he lived in Sri Lanka for a year on a Fulbright research scholarship.