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Love Advice columnist
I'm really great at giving love adice. My dream has always been to write for a newspaper and have my own love column. I was wondering how the process works. What degrees do i need, ect ect. I'm a huge fan of love and romance. I believe that i could really help people who need it. I have wanted to do this for a very long time. I really hope someone will help me out. Thank you.
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If you want to write for a newspaper you will need to enter a journalism program. You will study photography, interviewing, reporting, and learn to write and edit.
Those skills are essential and you absolutely must have them and the ability to write to professional standards. You also should get interested in the world around you, world history, politics, Middle-East as you need that.
The thing is that once you graduate you won't get the dream gig of being a columnist focusing on love and romance at first. You'll be hired as a reporter doing general assignments. As you gain readership and editor's trust you can then tell them that you want to focus on lifestyle stories and had an idea for a column.
In the meantime start writing for the school paper and maybe do the column for that and if you can really write and interview well already approach a community newspaper about learning about reporting and see if they will let you do actual stories if you're good and get you some portfolio clippings at least.
Almost anyone with a newspaper column didn't start working in the field in that position they had to work for several years for editors to let them do that but once you're in good you can say you have a specialty and want to do X,Y,Z too.
It's called a "beat" and all that means is an area that a reporter is solely focused on and writes about exclusively for a publication. While learning journalism always keep your preferred "beat" in mind so when you land a job your skills will be sharp and you can tell editors that this is what you are really good at. Good luck!
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