Starting out: are local papers a good entrance?
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- Are local papers a good place to start out?
- Julie
It’s really good grounding working in local papers. I think what we were talking about before, about taking your own pictures and that sort of thing, finding out how the entirety of how a newspaper works, or a magazine works, is really brilliant because then later on when you have to work with all these people, you know what they do and its really important.
- Lynn
And actually Greymouth, they’ve been a breeding ground for some of our finest reporters in the country, including people like Kim Hill, so there’s something special about Greymouth, and the late Jim Greaves was there and I think it is a great ground. Same with Dunedin. I mean Dunedin is a city, but it’s still a fantastic way to, you know, we had the mass murder coverage, floods, the Abbotsford slip which you may not remember about but its part of our history. So big events can happen in small places and when you are there. If you’re in Wellington and you’re a junior you won’t get a look in. The seniors will get in. When you’re in a smaller region, you’re it.
- Julie
You get to do a lot more as well because at a higher level, I guess you’re specialising a bit more, and when you work on a local newspaper you get to do a lot more different kinds of, you get to generalise a lot more, so its really good training.