How To Become a Tabloid Reporter

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Several respected journalists started out writing for tabloids, which can be an exciting career in itself.

To complete this How-To you will need:

A college degree
A stack of tabloids
Eye-catching leads
A competitive nature
Contacts and sources
A unique writing style
A mastery of tabloid jargon (optional)

Step 1: Get a college degree

Get a college degree in journalism or a related field, such as English or communications. Tabloid journalism requires strong reporting and writing skills; many mainstream media stories originate in the tabloids.

Step 2: Study the tabloids

Study several different tabloids to get a feel for the types of stories they publish and for their writing style.

Tip: Celebrity-filled Los Angeles is a good place to live to become a tabloid reporter, as are New York and London.

Step 3: Generate leads

Generate eye-catching lead stories, or "leads." Most tabloids want fresh celebrity stories, high-profile scandals, or the bizarre. This requires digging deep for a story angle and may also call for a bit of creative embellishment.

Tip: Learn tabloid jargon. Stories are written using simple language and often incorporate key catch phrases.

Step 4: Be competitive

Be competitive to stay in the tabloid game. Tabloids hire mainly freelancers, many who have no formal contract, so consistently generating publishable stories is vital.

Step 5: Build contacts

Build contacts to ensure you'll always have a story. Contacts and sources are crucial to the tabloid industry; a reporter who doesn't build a roster of them won't be successful.

Step 6: Develop a unique style

Develop your own unique style. Tabloid writers distinguish themselves by what they routinely cover and their use of humor, wryness, or other signature hooks.

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because we definatly need more of these..

[ImAnErectopus]

@agaragarlove - How do you know they have none?

[dingodingding]

I've been all over the world as a tabloid reporter, stayed at the best hotels, been to the best parties.

And I earn a small fortune, roughly double the income of my friends who work for broadsheets and have to rewrite annual reports/surveys/polls etc.

I win!!!

[ImAnErectopus]

@agaragarlove - These aren't useless... Maybe I want to become a reporter. than is it useless?

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HA HA HA a sac state student!

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you will need:

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[agaragarlove]

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AKA how to get your face bashed in.

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