Chris Rowson wrote: > Just checked the info, and this parish encompasses 17,200 people! > (2001 census) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingham%2C_East_Riding_of_Yorkshire > Not bad eh! > > Although I don't know about the magazine circulation, I think that > concentrating on smaller areas individually (but with one and others > support) gives us greater chance of success ;-) > > Chris I've had a few articles published in "special interest" magazines (no, not that sort!) - not Linux-related but related to my own area of investment specialism - and I currently have an agency running a national PR campaign for me in the "day job", so have a bit of experience in getting ideas into traditional media.
What I've found is that magazines tend to like articles that: - Are bang on target for their content area - Are well-written, in the sense of readability (relatively short sentence construction, no plosives next to fricassives, and so on) - Are free (in the sense of pizza) - Don't come over as if they were written by a religious nutcase (place the following in order of importance, 1: ending world poverty, 2: curing cancer, 3: ensuring programmers have a legal right to modify sourcecode, then work out what the order of importance is for the magazine readership!) - Many of them also seem to like articles that appear to interview other sources (There is one particular freelance journalist who phones me up for a soundbite every few months when he's pitching for a particular magazine.) If you are an IT consultant, don't hesitate to get sound-bites from your clients about their use of Ubuntu - the angle of "local firm XXX switched and...." - More and more local magazines have realised that they can't compete as an aggregator of generic news, so are pushing the "local angle" more and more... so by all means write for the East Riding of Yorkshire, if you live there, or can interview a local firm / celebrity, and make the article about THEM. Regards, Mark -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
