Question.

Not that I've done tons of research yet, but I throw these things out to my helpful friends who usually have some insight:

Writers' Market has listings for a lot of paying periodical markets.

But it doesn't tell you how to publish in newspapers, or in nonpaying publications.

Not that I'm dying to write for free, but I feel like it's a good start for getting clips and the like. (Thanks, scottsch!)

For instance, the travel writing I'd like to do fits better in the Boston Globe's travel section than it really does in, say, Travel & Leisure, but the path for getting things published there is rather unclear.

Does anyone/has anyone written for newspapers, and if so, is it more usual to get a job at one and work one's way up, or do they take freelance articles?

Anything else you could tell me about this would also be helpful. I feel like I don't know where to begin.