I have an idea for my local paper 4 a artical, with no expierience how do i convince em im right 4 the job?

Question

i think they'll like my idea, but i dont have the first idea how an artical gets from a draft to the printed edition that everyone reads. also dose the journalist writing the artical do it alone or would i do all the photos and everythin myself?

Answer 1

Well, considering you can't spell or use punctuation or capital letters, you have a big hill to climb.

Answer 2

When I was 16, I went to the local paper and presented the editor-in-chief with a list of ideas. He picked one, I wrote the story, and he printed it. You have to talk to the editor-in-chief at the local paper, present your idea, and see if they'll take it.

You will need to take a portfolio with you. Without experience, this is going to be tough. Get yourself an AP Styleguide and read it cover to cover. It'll teach you everything you need to know (almost) as far as style goes. Then, draft up some samples of your writing (maybe even write the story and then present it).

He'll review your writing and decide whether or not you're good enough to cover the story. Or, he may just take your idea and have one of his more experienced staff writers write up the story.

Normally, a paper will have staff photographers to handle taking pictures. You will, however, need to handle interviews and writing. Interviews are a MUST. You cannot write a story without them.

Best of luck to you--being a journalist is great.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Journalists are very very lazy. If they can avoid it they won't write an article. This is why many organisations have press officers. The press officer writes a News Release in the style of a newspaper article. The journalist copies and pastes the press release into a format to put under their editors nose and presto, a newspaper article is born.

In your case - you might need to get the journalist to do the writing, but for your information:

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Answer 5

If you have something that you want to write about, then write about it. You don't have to work for the paper to be in the paper. Write your article and send it in as a letter to the editor. Send it to several papers look at online papers,blogs and so forth. Write your article, yes that's important, but far more important is that you promote yourself and your writings. Send them as far and as wide as you can. Look to people with similar political views to help you, but at the same time never rule out those who disagree. Keep plugging away and eventually you will get exposure.

Good Luck

P.S. Take the advice of the others here and use spell check ;-)

Answer 6

Send your idea to the paper (as others have suggested, write it in grammatically correct form and spell things correctly, or they might not bother reading your suggestion at all).

There are editors that work for the paper; everything that gets printed goes through the editors and proof-readers first.

I doubt you'd be expected to take the photos.

Answer 7

Learn to use the spell checker if you can't be bothered to learn to spell! First things first. No-one will be interested in looking at a sloppy article!

Answer 8

You should contact them with your idea. You should do this by telephone or in person. You've got chance of being a journalist until you have learned 2 spel an rite prupperrlee! (annoying isn't it?)

Answer 9

Well, learn to spell first and that might go some way towards convincing them!

Answer 10

**** the spelling, anyone can use a spellchecker!!! its what on the page not how its spelt that counts! thats where talent lies, just keep sending copies to as many papers as you can, also look at amatuer journalist sites on the net and write for them, good luck!