On Wednesday, July 28th 2010, I had an article published on an event that I covered, a VW event at Santa Pod Raceway called Bug Jam.
I questioned the editor as to what I could do to get a larger space within his newspaper. My article went in as a 'fill' therefore my name was not put alongside my writing, the only time that the author's name is written is when a byline is given for a lead article. To be put in as a lead article i would have needed to interview audience members and organisers and included quotations from these people within my article.
I recieved a huge amount of praise from the newspapers editor saying 'you should take heart in the fact that we dedicated a downpage article to this, it isn't that many non-staff writers who would be given that space'. I have made some valuable contacts and it has encouraged me to keep percevering to get a bigger space in that newspaper and different magazines and newspapers in the future.
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