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I’ve been looking up previous questions on this but there don’t seem to be that many recent ones. Does anyone out there in Yahoo land have experience of working as a freelance writer in the UK, or of submitting speculative articles with or without success to newspapers etc? I should explain that I am not a teenage dreamer, I am a mature person with a solid knowledge of a niche subject and a track record of academic writing about it, kind of looking to transition to writing about my subject in a more commercial way. Just really wondering whether it’s possible to get paid for writing at all now, or is everything taken free from social media ??

What to ask a car company marking dept for a journalism interview?I have this school project to interview a marketing person for a small car company. It’s a mini-interview, just about 10-15 questions. What should I ask?I was thinking asking about the differences in cars marketed to that particular country, the challenges in selling a niche car, etc. Any ideas?

NEW YORK – A labor group affiliated with the nation’s largest union is giving its highest prize for journalism to a writer from the official newspaper of the Communist Party USA.
President Obama’s labor secretary, Hilda Solis, will be on hand for the awards dinner this week to lead a special session on how to respond to “expected” attacks from the new Republican-led House.
http://www.peoplesworld.org/people-s-world-to-pick-up-labor-journalism-prize/