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You can write things and sell them for money
Dangerou-Dave
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Did you know you can type things on a computer and then sell them to publications? Assuming you live in some sort of city, there are probably plenty of local magazines to sell your writing to, with each paying a ____ cents per word. What does it take to get published? Emailing a 'pitch memo' to editors, telling them a bit about yourself, and then 'pitching' the story you are going to write/have written, and include a few choice paragraphs to flesh it out. Boom! Check's in the mail.
But that's not really what I want to talk about. I'm curious, what sort of magazines, local or country-wide to you folks read? Do you read a particular newspaper, or watch a particular news channel? The news is fun to read, after all.
But that's not really what I want to talk about. I'm curious, what sort of magazines, local or country-wide to you folks read? Do you read a particular newspaper, or watch a particular news channel? The news is fun to read, after all.
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I don't think they employ a proofreader! nor have they ever to the best of my knowledge
it is so full of grammatical and spelling errors it is just embarassing
most of the stories are trivial nonsense, but nothing ever happens in that town for them to report on so I can't blame them for that
i had sound crackling problems on my laptop, whenever vista scans the local wireless networks i'd get sound crackle and slowdown of the entire computer
and i was reading forums and apparently disabling 802.11a bands on my wireless adapter works! shit yes! crackle-free sound!
Easy money.
Seriously, so many fucking hack journalists make money for utter balls on a page these days it makes you wonder why I even give a fuck and dont sell out and work on the Sun.
In fact, why don't I work for the Sun. I can sex up any news headline.
I never really thought about the news market in the UK. Is it more difficult to get a decent job there? I mean, there's major newspaper markets up and down the coasts here, and everywhere in between. New York, Chicago, D.C., San Diego, LA, San Francisco, Dallas, Minneapolis, etc. etc. I imagine the number of markets in the UK is a bit constrained due to your size?
Mind you, most are low paying internships, but those are the dues you pay. Also you have to live in London to work for any publication other than a select few Future magazines which are based up in sheffield I think. That's pretty much par for the course though in the uk, most jobs are in london, which is fucking expensive, dreary and grey and depressing.
I want to write for an american paper one day, cause then i can get away with not wearing a fucking t shirt and jeans to work and not look out of place. seriously, the day i wear even the slightest hint of a shirt its all 'oh man, here he comes got a wedding to go to or something?'
'look at my fucking shirt, its creased to shit and has donut jam all down the side. its the only fucking thing i could find this morning you goddam slobs.'
i can't wait to start applying to papers with my writing degree
I want one of these in my paper, instead of them still running calvin and hobbes, peanuts, gary larson and fucking hagar the horrible
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you're gonna be getting an english degree right? sometimes i kinda wish i had one of those, more options. but on the other hand, i dont wanna be anything else, so win win?
I'm well on my way to complete legitimacy
But seriously the opinion columns could use some philisophical insight.
Even if they gave Saints Row 2 a 5, I mean, come on
ergh
I want to read Edge but I just can't anymore
they're too pretentious even for my tastes
but it could be the onion!
its not in the actual comics section and its just old stuff you can see on her website
In comparison to the televised news in Gainesville, the paper is a shining beacon of hope.
Some examples might include an understanding of 'freedom of the press' issues.
Sounds simple, doesn't it? I've taken whole courses about this issue. One very simple example of what this entails: You're reporting on the scene of a major car accident. A police officer walks up and tells you to leave. What do you do? Where are you standing? Is it a sidewalk? A street? etc.
Another thing you might miss out on is information aptitude. Do you go to the county clerk for 'data X'? The auditor? What information do you go to a state attorney general for? Can I find these blueprints at city hall? Who are the 'go to' people at the city courthouse? etc.
The writing style if very important, but anyone can learn that as well. What information do you include in the first paragraph of a car accident piece, a house-fire piece, a robbery? etc.
I feel like it's the only way I won't get some angered spin
really?
this is fantastic
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i get information aptitude from google, and i have no doubt that i'll be able to take some extra journalism courses at whatever university i end up at
Not that kind of information. I'm talking, someone was killed an hour ago. There's not someone sitting in the courthouse who types up information and uploads it to a website the minute a piece of paper lands on their desk.
Pair this with a 5:00 p.m. deadline for tomorrow's paper.
Believe me, google is a fucking massive resource for, well, everything. But there are some things you need to pick up a phone, or get in a car for. Building face-to-face relationships with these sources of information might be the most important thing of all.
Their humor in uniform section just busts my buttons.
It's more that you know exactly what angered spin you will get
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nobody will give me a job so i'm probably going back to school for something
not really sure what yet
e: i don't mean that i can google these things, but finding things quickly in google requires a strategy for thinking about how to find things out
most of your hypotheticals have press contacts, or should
I was pretty unforgiving and got bitched out constantly by a bunch of greasy hippies.
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My brother-in-law appears to have gotten me a Readers Digest subscription for Christmas.
I'm trying to remember whether I might have shat in his shoes at any point in the recent past.
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