Question.

[kitchen_kink]

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.

Comments

[trimalchio.livejournal.com]

This might be an overly simplistic comment, but since you said you don't know where to begin . . .

The very best person to ask about the Boston Globe's travel column, for example, is the Boston Globe's travel editor (a quick web search turned up the name and contact info: Joe Yonan, 617-929-3139, yonan@globe.com ). Who probably has a pre-written answer to this very question saved as an e-mail template, having heard it enough times before. His answer will be more specific than "how is it usually done?" It will address "How is it done here in particular?"