if you have a natural skill but haven't exactly got the qualifications? sorry if its a dumb question just looking for some info. thanks.
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It's possible but not probable. The industry is such these days that MANY qualified, degree-holding journalists who've been laid off are now doing freelance work. They can be pretty hard to compete with. Most people hiring freelancers or freelance headhunters want you to have a few years working in-house at a newspaper, Web site, TV station or magazine first.
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It's been my experience that most papers are willing to hire freelancers who don't have a related degree or experience. Your best bet is to look for an event your local newspaper wouldn't usually cover (think something small), do a little research on it and think up an angle, and then call the local paper's metro or managing editor and pitch your idea. If they're not into that, find a feature story you'd like to write or a topic you can cover without a tight deadline, do the story on your own and then take the finished product to the editor of the paper and see if they'd be interested in running it. They may sit on it for a while, but something like that will come in handy when another story falls through on short notice or they've got a big section to fill. As far as pay goes, don't expect a lot. Most papers aren't willing to shell out more than $50-75 for a story unless you're particularly good or it's a long, in-depth story
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