What's in a byline?
Ahhhhh! My son, Frank, has got his first byline. He's doing his work experience at the moment - if you don't live in the UK, it's a bit like US interns or slavery. But he's really enjoying it as he want to be a journalist. He's 15 and I have tried to persuade him that journalism might not be the best profession (I did it for 15 years and loved it and then I had a family to feed) but he is determined and in the time-honoured tradition he believes his Dad is an idiot - thank God. He's a good judge of character. By the way, he's working at Spong.
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Congratulations to Frank! And well done him for having the good sense to find an outlet that actually hands out bylines to its writers. My early days were spent at a paper where they were refused on the grounds you were "just doing your job" - which could be seen as fair enough but has added to the sad spectacle of a nearly 40-year-old woman still getting excited when she sees her name in print...wherever it is!
I was quite lucky as I got a byline during my first week in a real job at the Liverpool Daily Post! But I knew one guy who had to wait three years before his name appeared in print - I thought he was going to cry when he told me his mum would be so proud
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