>New freelancing for newspapers challenge
Posted: September 20, 2007 | Author: Sue Fagalde Lick | Filed under: count bylines, Freelancing for Newspapers challenge, Sunday papers |3 Comments>I know it’s been a while since I offered a challenge, but here it is: Let’s all study our Sunday papers this weekend and count the freelance articles. Make a list, noting the sections, types of article and whether the same byline appears more than once. And of course tell us what paper you’re reading. If you have access to more than one daily, try a different paper from the one you usually read. It could be quite educational for all of us.
How do you know if it’s freelance? Staff writers are usually identified as such while freelancers get something like “special writer,” “guest contributor,” “special to the (blank),” etc. You can also look for tags at the end of the story, where they might say, “Jennifer Smith is a freelance writer from Paducah” or something like that.
I’m going to do it. Let’s meet back here next week and compare notes. In a random drawing, one of you will be awarded a free copy of my Freelancing for Newspapers book.
Sue
>Sounds fun, Sue! I hope several people join in ;)Have you ever written in the Progress Issues that normally come out in Fall or Spring?I posted about our local newspaper’s Progress Edition over at my blog. Smiles,Michele
>see you next week!
>Michele, yes, I have written for Progress Editions. At the first chain I worked for, that was my job for a while. I’d spend a month or so at each office doing the local progress edition, then move on to the next one. A lot of work, but it was fun.I hope a lot of people take the challenge, too. That will make it more fun. If the winner already has Freelancing for Newspapers and would rather have a copy of my other book Stories Grandma Never Told, that would be fine with me. Happy reading.