The only time when you can guarantee your story is not going to be sold on without your knowledge is by consulting a trusted media agent …
Tag: Newspapers – Sell Your Story
The Telegraph app doesn’t work …
A look at national newspaper apps … which is best? ‘You don’t have a subscription’ says The Telegraph paper app, blocking out the story I wanted to read. It is something that happens all too often these days with The Telegraph – a paper I have paid to read on my iPhone. I have rung […]
Ten stories that earn the most cash…
Which real-life stories do magazines, newspapers and television like the best? A selection of some of the most sought after… Cheating and infidelity If your husband ran off with the bridesmaid, your best friend or your mum then you have definitely got a story to sell! Discovered the one you love is a bigamist? You […]
Selling your story to a magazine – ten top tips!
Rule number one! Don’t go directly to any publication! A magazine or newspaper might offer you money for your story but you won’t know if their offer is a good one or not … or the best. There is also no guarantee your story will appear as you want it to or that you will be paid – if anything goes wrong you are on your own against a big national publication…
How to be a great press officer…
…as a journalist, I would say you can tell about a company by the way its press office is run (the best press officers are at well run businesses that customers love as well.)
Will we have to pay to read newspaper websites?
As more newspaper websites bring in paywalls, the wider ramifications are that many fashion, health and celebrity blogs which thrive on simply sharing or (illegally) rehashing content from these newspaper websites, could struggle to survive…
The end of the ‘investigative journalist’?
With such stringent press regulation on the cards is this the end of investigative journalism and hope for anyone trying to get justice via a newspaper…?
Getting national coverage for your local story…
Stories where people generally complain about ‘more noise’ ‘more pollution,’ ‘more traffic’ are not wacky or interesting enough to warrant a piece in the national press …
Our predictions for newspapers, magazines and TV in 2013…
In the third and final part of our Predictions trilogy, we reveal the key issues for newspapers, magazines and the world of television in 2013…
How would not having a free press affect YOU?
If a free press goes then what next for Twitter, Facebook and blogs … how freedom of speech is something we should all value…