slykat wrote:ProverB wrote:Anyone with an idea the best way to go about it? For pay?
articles on finance,investments in newspapers or magazines.. would so appreciate..
homead.ke@gmail.comTahnx.
I do not wish to dampen your hopes, but forget local dailies...they want freebies..unless u r a fly babe and known to the MEs. and there is no clarity after how many published articles, they will start paying you... when u send free ones they publish. Ask for k, they refuse! I know this from experience with nation n std...it is as if, if they pay you..you will write regularly and outshine their biz editor...
so, what to do, personally i started sending articles to international publications that promise to pay for anything they publish. From that I got some regular work with one magazine... paid to enjoy my writing hobby.
To start you off... try...http://www.freelancer.com/
My experience is different.
I have been writing on freelance basis for local dailies and magazines for more than 12 years.
I have found the editors very professional, especially at NMG.
My first article for NMG appeared in the EastAfrican in 1999. I wrote the piece, printed a hard copy and simply addressed it to "The Editor, The EasAfrica, P. O. Box ..."; put a stamp on it and posted it.
One week later, it was published as the lead feature in the paper's "Part 2" magazine section and I was paid sh3,500. No pushing; no pleading; no previous relation with the editor [Mbatau Wangai, at the time] and I'm not a "fly babe" - I'm a man!!
After that article, I became an [almost] regular columnist and wrote many articles for them [and got paid each time]... until I got bored and moved to other publications.
Before, EastAfrican, I had written an opinion in local business magazine as a "letter to the editor" in 1998. When the editor saw it, he used it as a mini-feature and paid me for it [Letters to the editor are not paid for] and asked me to be a regular contributor.
After proving my worth, I have been invited to become a weekly columnist and I now have two weekly columns in local dailies. In addition, I write occasional features outside the contractual columns and when I send them out they get published and I'm paid...
Thinking about it; I had a few pieces rejected at the beginning - about 2 or 3 - but for the last 10 years, none of my articles has ever been rejected... and I don't push them to be published.
I just email them using the publication's general address and wait....
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