Postal Letter

Write an article for the daily mail?

I'm 15 years old, and journalism has inspired me, i hope to become a music journalist. I have been to many gigs, and would really like to write a review on them, and send it to the daily mail. My love for writing is huge, and i'd also like to do this as a bit of writing experience, for the future. Is this possible? How do i do it? All answers fully appreciated! Thank you :) x i have chosen the daily mail simply because i know no other newspapers, i live in Leicester, any other suggestions? Go for it.

Public Comments

1. For the Daily Mail eh? Just slag off Asylum Seekers, they'll print that!
2. The daily mail manages to convince its stupid readers they are middle class at the same time it encourages bullying and hatred for the working classes
3. Make sure it's written for Home County punters (id est; people residing with a 50 mile radius of London). I'm sure you will not tell us why you have picked to write for the Daily Mail (known in the Private Eye as 'Hate Mail'), but if you indeed have read the Daily Mail, haven't you come to the conclusion 'music journalist' and 'Daily Mail' would make as 'good' a partner as Amy Winehouse and the Pope. You may need to undergo a change of politics to write for the Mail...hate immigrants, hate people of colour, strengthen insularity, not give a sweet cuss about people who reside beyond the noose (known to one and all as the M25). Get all envious about continental Europeans, who's governments long ago has ignored the UK - and for good reason. Could go on for hours about what kind of a person you need to be to write for the Mail - but one thing, I see is against you from the start; you are 15...which in Mail language means 'youth'. 'Youth', not in the way it's normally meant, but in the right-wing envious snarly way...meaning 'need to be watched', 'criminally minded' and 'moronic'.
4. Why the Daily Mail? Regardless of what you think of the Daily Mail's politics (which are somewhat irrelevant if you're not aiming to be a political journalist or opinion columnist), the plain facts are that it really doesn't have a lot of music coverage compared to the red-tops and the broadsheet supplements, and also it's a best selling national daily which means it's unlikely to accept unsolicited submissions from unpublished writers. You're best off approaching a local newspaper, maybe a local community free sheet or something like that. Once you've become a published writer, you'll have a bit more leverage with the bigger publications.