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Topic: Portfolio strategy and guidelines

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Redacted2008 Posted – 8/13/2007 10:59:51 AM | show profile
I am on staff with a publication and have lots and lots of clips. I feel ready to move on and would like to send out copies of my portfolio to as many magazines, papers, web sites, and any other potential employer I might like to work for as I can think of.

In hardcopy:

How many clips do I include?

I have long features, short interviews, arts reviews, shorter features, short profiles of people and places.

Is it okay to speed things up by making a boilerplate cover letter?

At large organizations (i.e. a newspaper with lots of different sections) is there one type of editor I should target, or should I contact the editor of each section I'd like to work for, individually?

Online:

Is it okay to copy and paste articles in plain text?

To scan articles and post them online for editors to look through?

Has anyone tried this scattershot, hedge-your-bets approach?
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