Introduction - British BA Hons Sports Journalism graduate

EE94 · Feb 20, 2008

MarkPickering said:

awriter said:

MarkPickering said:

I've recently completed two weeks work experience at the South Wales Argus - http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/

I have a host of cuttings that range from soccer to tennis, darts and snooker.

I also took a two weeks placement in 2006 at the Press Association as part of my degree.
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Is that all you did during college? No internships? No part-time work at a paper while in college? I'm just wondering. Because if that's the case, then you are way behind. That said, you should send clips, cover letters and resumes everywhere, to papers big and small (and Web sites and wire services), in North America and Europe or wherever else you're willing to live. You'll have a hard time finding work over here, given the economy and your apparent lack of experience, but you never know. Also, familiarize yourself with football (the American variety) and baseball because there's not much snooker coverage over here.
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At Uni we were required to take the one placement which counted as one of our modules.

I've had work published since I was 16 in a range of publications such as: The Sun, Pro Wrestling Press, BBC, Fighters Only Magazine, DogHouseBoxing, BraggingRightsCorner, Slam Sports, PWInsider, WrestlingObserver, VoiceOfFootball, Total MMA, SportingLife, Team Talk, Soccernet, ECB, Fight World Magazine, Brisbane Broncos, MaxFighting, Fight Opinion, EastSideBoxing, MMA Madness, South Wales Argus, Celtic Crusaders RL, Welsh RL and Cardiff City FC.

I've closely followed the NBA, NFL etc from a pretty young age.

Thanks for the advice so far.
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IN all seriousness, you might have better opportunities in Australia than the States. As I'm sure you know, Aussies are sports nuts and my guess would be there is less competition than either UK or the States.
Plus, it's warm ...

forever_town · Feb 20, 2008

shotglass said:

Dignan, you come to me as a recent college grad and tell me you had a 3.9 GPA, played for the baseball team and have no clips ... and I'm going to keep looking deeper in my stack of resumes.
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I agree with that, but here's my take.

Give me the guy with a 2.0 who has clips that blow me away and glowing recommendations from internship supervisors over someone with a 4.0 who has zero clips nine ways to Sunday.

No one is going to give a flying fuck what your college GPA was when you're out in the world. And that piece of advice came to me from a guy who had a 4.0 GPA in college. As he was speaking at his college graduation.

awriter · Feb 21, 2008

shotglass said:

No, awriter, you weren't harsh. You were right.

Dignan, you come to me as a recent college grad and tell me you had a 3.9 GPA, played for the baseball team and have no clips ... and I'm going to keep looking deeper in my stack of resumes.

Because when we're putting out seven editions a week, I can't guarantee I'm going to have time to teach you how to maneuver your way around a newsroom.
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I was kind of operating under the assumption that Mark did absolutely nothing in college other than go to class, so I my tone might have been a bit harsh. But I stand behind everything else I wrote.

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