There are a lot of taboos and ethical questions hanging over journalists when they ponder whether to take that corporate or commercial gig. Making things trickier, corporate clients tend to have different expectations than media outlets. Regardless, Covid’s impact on the market has made it a necessity to juggle between…

As September begins, everyone is back at work, making it the ideal time to start reaching out and finding more publications to publish with. That makes it the share insight from expert freelancers who have made their livelihoods by knocking on doors and locking in clients. In an online #FreelanceHacks…

Throughout the COVID summer, HackPack has brought journalists, videographers, fixers and photographers over 60,000USD in over 50 countries. We have seen clients’ need to find someone local due to travel and budget constraints, while freelancers face intense economic hardships. Therefore, we have set ourselves to fix the way freelancing works…

Throughout this summer, there has been a heightened intensity of protests which have swiftly turned violent. Demonstrations in the US around police shootings, presidential elections in Belarus and in Lebanon after the port explosion have attracted journalists to help tell the story. However, these events provide major challenges for safety…

Ok, you’ve gotten a freelancer’s interest and they’ve clicked on your assignment, now it is the brief that will clinch the deal. We’ve found that the likelihood for them to respond is based upon 3 main factors: Interest Trust Clarity Here, we’ll break them down for a video request. Interest Simply…

There are many great freelancers out there and many professionals who moonlight. But how are you sure to pull in the right person for your project? We’ve set up a great tool on HackPack to help you match with the ideal journalist, photographer, videographer, fixer or writer by sending requests…

This is definitely our most powerful tool because it makes processes within teams so much more efficient and easy. In fact, it is so efficient that it is essentially invisible. Let me explain. Every time you work with a new freelancer, you publish an assignment. You’ll have multiple members apply…

Teams we’re here for you! Whether you are a production agency creating stories for various clients or a publication chasing after breaking news stories. You all need to source a wide range of freelancers, track all of the transactions and get people paid. So we’ve produced a freelancer relationship management…

Climate change, immigration and refugee crises, trade wars, the FIFA World Cup — it doesn’t take long to fill a paper with story topics that demand cross-border collaborations. The world has quickly evolved, but how do you professionally keep pace with it? We’re covering a few key organizations and tools…