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Newspaper reporters have the luxury of knowing they can always get better than they are right now. Here are some steps to becoming a newspaper reporter:
Studying journalism is not absolutely necessary but it looks good on your resume.
Get pretty good grades in everything you study.
Participate in your high school and college newspapers.
Get at least a bachelor's degree.
Constantly improve your skills in spelling, grammar and syntax. Know you can always
improve.
Get a job at a small-town newspaper, even if it as a lowly "copy person."
Read good writing; read The New York Times and other top national newspapers.
In your first job, do more than is expected.
Commit yourself to 100% accuracy in every story you report.
Be available to work odd hours, nights, and weekends.
Develop your own story ideas and convince the paper to run them under your byline.
Save and make a notebook, disc, or website to allow access to your best newswriting
samples, whether they were published or not.
Apply for jobs at newspapers in medium-sized cities.
Talk to the best reporters and editors you can find.
Enter valid writing contests and win.
Apply to the best newspapers in the country and take an offer. You can always
work your way up.
Read books written by great reporters about their work.
Writing exercises:
Copy a news story from and rewrite it to make it a better news story, in
your view. Using the basic information (and adding things that you would have
added) to make a feature story, an column, an obit, a sports style story,
and a fictional short story. Try rewriting various stories in various styles.
Write readable news stories of events you attend.
Find a very long news story and edit it down to half its size. Now edit it down half of
that.
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Arthur Lennard Woolf has written: 'How to become a newspaper reporter' -- subject(s): Journalism, Vocational guidance
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be
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to improve the nation
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