Hello, forum! My name is Adam Zielonka. I've been a Jets fan all my life, and I'm also an aspiring sportswriter. A great up-and-coming website called xxxxxx has given me the opportunity to write about the Jets for them. I'm still a newbie without the requirements for posting links, so for now just go to xxxxxxx and search my name to find the articles. You can also go to the Jets' team page there. Would it be better for me to keep all my articles confined to one thread on here? Spread them out? Make a thread somewhere specific? Let me know, and thanks for checking out my work!
Thanks, 1985er! Tell me what you think! When I'm given the ability to post links on here, I will. I should mention that xxxx assigns its writers a topic weekly, and I have to use that topic as one of my minimum two articles each week. My newest article concerns which rookies will make the team, which I understand is hard to decide in May. A few weeks ago the NFL writers' assignment was to write a draft report card for their respective teams, which I'm thoroughly against doing right after the draft. So I graded the 2011 draft instead and they liked that.
Welcome aboard. If you want to learn what not to do in Jets journalism, then follow Manish Mehta. Not that anyone has time for that! Good luck with your articles.
Thanks for the reply xxedge72x! Thanks for the heads up xD I like to read basically any beat writer that's not Manish. Kimberly A. Martin of Newsday has become my favorite.
I'm not entirely sure what we allow and what we don't allow but I'm quite sure self promotion isn't allowed. I'm gonna leave this open for now only because I'm not 100% sure of the policy but don't be surprised if this thread is closed and deleted but please continue to post your opinions and thoughts on the team if it does get closed.
Thank you for the heads up, Barry! I understand there's a blurry line when it comes to advertising yourself on forums like this, and I'd be lying if I said my joining here wasn't at least in part for showing more people my work. I know when I joined my website, they encouraged sharing my work on fan forums, but if the forum rules won't allow it, so be it!
For now I'm going to edit out the name of your site until I know for sure what is allowed and what's not.
We normally don't allow people to promote their own websites, and if it becomes obvious that this person is simply trying to drive traffic to his site, I'll shut it down. Since it's the offseason, and there's so little new content being generated at this point, I'm okay to let it slide for now
Sounds good, and thank you! It is a virtual internship I'm doing with them with an indefinite time frame, so I might even be done writing for their site by the regular season. I'll have to see.
Welcome to the board Adam. I just read your analysis of the offensive players likely to make the 53-man roster and enjoyed it. Solid, crisp writing. Could I ask if you get paid for writing at xxxx? It's a bit of a personal crusade of mine, but I hate that so many sites take advantage of aspiring writers by asking them to write for free. A little off-topic there, I know, but as a fellow writer I believe that if something is good enough to be published, it's good enough to be paid for! Good luck with your career and I hope you enjoy yourself on TGG.
Thank you for the kind reply, ukjetsfan! My internship with the website is unpaid. I've come to terms with the fact that many journalism interns are unpaid, at least when starting out. I'm focused on building my resume for now, and I know the time will come when this experience helps me land a bigger internship, with pay, before I graduate college. I understand the concern that websites take advantage of writers by having them write for free, but I could just as easily have chosen not to write for them. I would absolutely prefer to get paid, of course, but I also wanted to be published, and someone else would have stepped up and taken the position for free if I hadn't. It's just for now!
Now you tell me. I've been searching www.xxxxxxx.com and you can't believe what I'm finding. It ain't football. _
It looks to me that this is just an attempt to drive traffic to the site that employs the author of this thread. That site is not getting many visitors, if any at all, as there are no article comments or fb likes. If the author wants to add to the discussion here, he's more than welcome to do so. But this thread looks like a self-promotion and that's why I am going to close it.
