| Wednesday, December 06, 2006 |
| Look Ma, I'm in the paper! |
My first piece published in a real newspaper-- mission accomplished! (Read it within a week or you have to register on the JT site.) Now I might be able to explain to my school why I keep spending free periods on my keitai, huddled in the smoking room, calling up women's shelters. Awkward much?
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20061205zg.html
I should credit my (lack of) journalistic training to the Whitman College Pioneer. There, I learned how to type really fast and how to track down the basketball team for an interview on 1 hours' notice. These skills will serve me well: the typing for obvious reasons, and the athlete-stalking in case I want to become a jersey-chaser. My biggest moment was when the Washington Secretary of State came to our little town and none of the editors could interview him, so I got the front-page feature. I pulled an all-nighter to perfect my pieces, opened the paper that week, and saw myself credited as "Sraff Writer." But those heady days on sraff are gone... I'm freelance now, baby. |
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That's very impressive. Good on you!
The most I ever got was an article in the Tokyo Classified (Metropolis now). But the Japan Times, as you say, is a real newspaper.
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That's very impressive. Good on you!
The most I ever got was an article in the Tokyo Classified (Metropolis now). But the Japan Times, as you say, is a real newspaper.