Journalist
Dave Freedman has worked as a journalist since 1978, primarily in the fields of law, business (particularly finance, marketing, and HR), personal finance, and technology. From 1978 to 1999, he served on the editorial staffs of consumer, business, professional, and trade periodicals. As a freelance journalist since 1999, he has authored feature articles for dozens of national and local magazines, newsletters, newspapers, and online media.

He has also written extensively about real estate, economics, consumerism, home improvement, woodworking, and other topics.

Dave has collaborated on magazine and newsletter articles—as a coauthor, editor, and ghostwriter—with lawyers, accountants, financial planners, and other professional advisers. He is a coauthor of the handbook Under Your Byline: 7 Steps to Getting Your Bylined Articles Published (www.byline7.com).

Rich website content
Dave has developed award-winning websites for small professional firms, and has created journalism-level content for existing firm websites. He has spoken at conferences on Internet public relations strategies and techniques, including social media optimization (SMO).

Newsletter & blog writer/developer
Dave has helped firms develop and write client newsletters and employee newsletters. He successfully launched and marketed a commercial newsletter in the real estate development field (distributed only to paid subscribers).

Dave has written extensively on the techniques of newsletter writing and publishing (see articles). He has appeared on TV and spoken to professional associations about topics related to newsletters, non-fiction writing, and business communications.

Dave builds blogs using the WordPress and TypePad platforms. Freedman's own blogs feature reviews of books, DVDs, and other media:

4YRP-Law    Law & Justice
4YRP-GLB   All about the Great Lakes Basin of North America
Convert This  All about website conversion strategies

Media relations
Since 1999, Dave has helped legal and financial advisers get interviewed, quoted, and featured in the media, including print, broadcast, and online media. (See client list.) He has helped professionals write bylined feature articles and place them in print and electronic publications. He won a Your Honor Award from the Legal Marketing Association (LMA) for public relations in 2001.

He is also a coauthor of the Get Good Press Series of handbooks about media relations for lawyers.

Author
Dave has been involved in four successful non-fiction book projects:

Dave coauthored Death of an American (Continuum, NY, 1983). The book is based on the $100 million Singer vs. Wadman civil rights lawsuit filed in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1979.

He wrote Box-Making Basics, a woodworking book (Taunton Press, Newtown, CT, 1997), which has sold over 65,000 copies.

Dave edited Information Nation: Seven Keys to Information Management Compliance, by Randolph Kahn, attorney, and Barclay Blair, management consultant (AIIM, 2004).

Dave wrote Chapter 45, on marketing communications, of the book Flying Solo: A Survival Guide for the Solo and Small Firm Lawyer, Fourth Edition (ABA, 2005).

Awards
Dave has received awards for magazine feature writing, financial magazine editing, website content, newsletter writing, legal journalism, and media relations. More importantly, he won a Gold Glove Award from the Rodale Press softball team (1999) and first prize in the Big Wheel Model Car Contest (1964).

Workshops
Dave has served on the faculty of non-fiction writing workshops, including the SEAK workshop for lawyers.