Is this a conflict of interest?

That and more in today's Q&A

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Hello friends! Welcome to another edition in an ongoing series of Q&A newsletters, in which I’ll pick out a few reader-submitted questions and offer my take. We’ve got a couple of heady topics today, so let’s dive right in. (As always, this is just one editor’s opinion; ask 10 other editors these same questions and you might get 10 different answers.)

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Does doing both journalistic writing and content writing inherently cause a conflict of interest?

Saima asks: When I hear about people combining journalism and content work, my question is always how they handle conflicts of interest. For context, I'm a freelancer and I do 100% journalism. I would love to also write for start-ups, universities, etc., but I know I would lose at least one of my anchor clients because they're sticklers about wanting their journalists to appear objective. I did have…