Client Connections 2025
Client Connections 2025 (CC25)
JOIN US IN NYC FOR CLIENT CONNECTIONS 2025
Client Connections (CC), ASJA’s signature event, offers one-on-one meetings with top magazines, newspapers, book agents and marketing agencies; the connections made can lead to long-term successful business relationships. Get ready for Client Connections 2025 — an in-person event in New York City on February 25, 2025, hosted in conjunction with the ASJA 2025 Annual Conference.
Only professional members can register for CC, a series of nine-minute meetings with editors and agents. Participants pitch story ideas to editors, book proposals with agents and discuss their areas of expertise with content managers. After following up, members often find themselves with new client contacts and new assignments.
For details about CC25, visit the CC FAQ page.
Pitching or otherwise contacting editors before CC appointments is a violation of CC guidelines that can prevent participation in future Client Networking events, including VCC, VPS, and Client Connections.
Scroll down to see the growing list of registered CC25 clients.
FinePrint Literary Management
Category that describes your organization: Literary Agency
Range of fees you pay your writers: We are literary agents.
Types of projects you typically assign: We represent adult fiction and non-fiction titles on a wide-range of subjects including health, history, parenting, music, how-to, popular science, business and biography.
Areas of expertise: See above.
Are you looking for pitches? I’m happy to meet with authors for informatin purposes, but preferably authors should have a project and proposal either prepared or in preparation for us to discuss.
Scientific American Custom Media / Nature Research Custom Media
Category that describes your organization: Springer Nature
Range of fees you pay your writers: $1.65/word for three-source features and other trend stories. $1.25/word for single-source Q&As and research news pieces.
Types of projects you typically assign: I am part of a global team that produces all branded and custom content for Nature and Scientific American. I assign science stories—often on biotechnology and drug development, but sometimes also covering another field of science, including drug development, healthcare and sustainability. Typical stories include from one to three sources and range from 500 to 1000 words, although we sometimes run longer pieces.
Areas of expertise: We have regular opportunities for writers who can cover life sciences, biotech and drug development for either consumer audiences or the scientific community. We sometimes have opportunities for writers who can cover sustainability, health and healthcare, clinical medicine and many additional fields of science.
Are you looking for pitches? No — we assign all our stories.
Additional info: We are the commercial media arm of both Scientific American and Nature. Our stories typically run in one of these two publications; occasionally they run in both. Scientific American (scientificamerican.com) is the world’s leading science magazine, reaching a large audience of savvy, educated and science-curious consumers. Nature (nature.com) is a leading scientific journal that goes out the global scientific community.
Weill Cornell Medicine
Category that describes your organization: Health care communications.
Range of fees you pay your writers: $1 per word
Types of projects you typically assign: We are looking for writers who are comfortable writing news stories and/or press releases about institutional and scientitic achievements, all geared to the lay reader.
Areas of expertise: We are looking for general assignment writers, as well as those with expertise in covering science, including basic and clinical research, and public health.
Are you looking for pitches?: We would like to use this time to get to know writers; our team generates assignments.
Global Finance Magazine
Category that describes your organization: Digital and print publication.
Range of fees you pay your writers: $1/per word for print stories. A flat fee for online stories.
Types of projects you typically assign: With new writers we start with short assignments based on their pitches.
Areas of expertise: We are looking for pitches for corporate finance stories, and more generally for finance feature. Our audience is made of corporate executives, so we do not focus on personal finance or investments. We cover banking and finance, fintech, innovation and corporare trends.
Are you looking for pitches?: We work with many freelancers, and we can always have more. You need some experience writing on the topics we cover both in print and online. So you need prior experience. Initially we ask for pitches for short stories of a few hundred words, and eventually we move to feature. We have an editorial calendar, but the short stories are usually news related.
Additional info: at our website www.gfmag.com to have an idea of style and coverage.
Vassar College Publications
Category that describes your organization: Higher Ed
Range of fees you pay your writers: $1 to 1.25/word or negotiated based on assignment
Types of projects you typically assign: We’re looking for writers to assign stories about alumni and institutional priorities. Typically, these assignments are due within a two- or three-week period. We do accept pitches for 600-1,200 word articles. Extra points for those local to Hudson Valley, NY, or can easily travel here to report on college initiatives/people.
Humanities, arts, STEM, political science, economics, sociology, international affairs, environmental studies, and pedagogy in many forms.
Are you looking for pitches? Prefer meeting journalists and adding to our stable of good writers. Open to pitches about VC alums, though. Must have “newsy” element.
Additional info: Please see back issues to note the tone of our magazine and types of coverage: vassar.edu/vq
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