First two named articles hit the shelves! (with eight more in the shadows)

It might not seem like much to the guys at the Ilford Recorder offices, but today when I bought the latest issue of the Ilford Recorder (after now having finished 2 1/2 weeks of work experience there) and saw two articles with my name on the top I was ecstatic.

In context, say there's 100 articles written by the guys in the office every week, and they all go to print. Out of these 100, there's only about 10 named. So seeing my name on 2 of these articles felt pretty special to me.

After getting 12 published articles last week, I've also managed to get a few more done this week.

In fairness, my first thought was actually disappointment. Not to take things for granted or anything, but I wrote a profile on this local dancer who's hitting it big in America and just opened a school dance theatre up locally, and was convinced this was the cover story for the entertainment supplement. Therefore, opening the Review section of the newspaper up and seeing a profile on a female actress was a pretty low experience.

However, I'm assuming this article will print next week, and the extra one that I've made this week will be done the week after, so my name will still linger around in the newspaper for a few weeks to come yet! (This hopefully reflecting wel on the CV/portfolio since my articles have been published in about four - not one - edition of the local paper.

Anyway, I still managed to get a whopping TEN articles published overall - so a very happy trainne journalist indeed.

Bring on next week's paper!

- Psst. Check out http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/content/redbridge/recorder/news/story.aspx?brand=RECOnline&category=newsIlford&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsilford&itemid=WeED05%20Aug%202010%2012%3A26%3A09%3A637 and http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/content/redbridge/recorder/news/story.aspx?brand=RECOnline&category=newsIlford&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsilford&itemid=WeED05%20Aug%202010%2009%3A10%3A29%3A950 too. They're the ones I'm talking about!