Motorsport Journalism

jpm · Post by **jpm** » 01 Sep 2011, 14:17

Today I got my first article published on Autosport.com!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/94159

Have any of the F1 Rejects community had some publishing success?

Priceless · Post by **Priceless** » 01 Sep 2011, 14:50

Not myself, and that's very unlikely to happen to me, since I'm a software engineer by trade...

I replied just to use the chance and say, "congratulations!"

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 01 Sep 2011, 15:05

Well done, hope it's the first of many.

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 01 Sep 2011, 17:10

Superb mate! The Autosport MotoGP section could use a new reporter or two as the amount of errors that I seem to find in their articles is shocking!

Here's to many more, good luck!

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 01 Sep 2011, 17:19

I hope you got paid hansomely for that

noisebox · Post by **noisebox** » 01 Sep 2011, 17:50

Nice one... keep up the good work!

Post by **Londoner** » 01 Sep 2011, 18:39

Sweet! Let's hope there's many more to come.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 01 Sep 2011, 19:18

Congratulations jpm. Looking forward for more!

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 01 Sep 2011, 20:29

Very well done!

I've been published a couple of times in Irish papers about non-motorsport stuff (not irate letters to the editor either I might add!).

patrick · Post by **patrick** » 01 Sep 2011, 20:29

Congratulations! good to know there is a reject in the autosport ranks!
At what point will you be guest editing an Andrea Moda special edition of the print magazine?

Ferrim · Post by **Ferrim** » 01 Sep 2011, 22:18

ADx_Wales wrote:I hope you got paid hansomely for that

I hope they didn't ask him to pay for publishing that! :mrgreen:

Peter · Post by **Peter** » 02 Sep 2011, 00:30

Good job man! Is this going to be the beginning of F1 Reject's slow takeover of motorsport journalism? :twisted:

I'd love to get into motorsport journalism, but there's no crowd here in Jamaica interested in anything motorsport. Maybe a blog, but there are a million of those, i'd never get any more than a handful of people unless i'm above average and/or plastered it all over the internet. :lol:

whatisdeletrazdoing · Post by **whatisdeletrazdoing** » 02 Sep 2011, 01:17

Congrats man!

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 02 Sep 2011, 09:34

AndreaModa wrote:Superb mate! The Autosport MotoGP section could use a new reporter or two as the amount of errors that I seem to find in their articles is shocking!

Looks like that won't be me at any time soon, then... I read that name as "Alvaro Batistuta" and wondered if he was related to an Argentinian footballer.

jpm · Post by **jpm** » 02 Sep 2011, 11:33

And just to make Cynon happy, I've posted one about Simona too.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/94173

ADx_Wales wrote:I hope you got paid hansomely for that

Ha ha no! I'm on work experience

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 02 Sep 2011, 12:20

jpm wrote:And just to make Cynon happy, I've posted one about Simona too.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/94173

ADx_Wales wrote:I hope you got paid hansomely for that

Ha ha no! I'm on work experience

Glad you're publishing good-news stories! Well-written too. How easy was it to get work experience there? I'm guessing you're based near Teddington, like the magazine?

Post by **mario** » 02 Sep 2011, 12:21

jpm wrote:And just to make Cynon happy, I've posted one about Simona too.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/94173

ADx_Wales wrote:I hope you got paid hansomely for that

Ha ha no! I'm on work experience

Well, here's hoping that this leads to a permanent position - how long will your placement run for?

jpm · Post by **jpm** » 02 Sep 2011, 12:36

Today's my last day, I had an excellent week (and got to go down to the LAT photo archive, and flick through all the old Autosport magazines!) It's relatively simple to get a placement, just contact one of the big-wigs by e-mail (such as Edd Straw or Andrew van de Burgt).

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 02 Sep 2011, 13:21

That's cool! AND you got stuff published on their website?!

Jeroen Krautmeir · Post by **Jeroen Krautmeir** » 02 Sep 2011, 13:44

jpm wrote:And just to make Cynon happy, I've posted one about Simona too.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/94173

You made me happy as well.

Good articles jpm, hope it you get something full time soon!

Faustus · Post by **Faustus** » 02 Sep 2011, 15:03

Great to see you getting your stuff published jpm! The first couple of many to come!

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 03 Sep 2011, 16:30

..."Sonoma di Silvestro"...?

RAK · Post by **RAK** » 17 Sep 2011, 16:59

jpm wrote:Have any of the F1 Rejects community had some publishing success?

I doubt you could call it success, but I've had a few computer game reviews published online. One of them was on a racing simulator.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 17 Sep 2011, 17:37

Again, not really success, but I wrote for a wee independent motorsport website for a while.I did break a few minor stories days or months ahead of teams actually confirming them to the public, those being Petrov & Ho-Pin Tung joining Renault in 2010, Jamie McMurray returning to Earnhardt-Ganassi in the #1 car for 2010, and breaking Toyota's withdrawal from F1 before any other major media outlets did (aside from the Japanese one I sourced the story from obviously). So my success have been minor and also my last, after realising media is somewhat of a dead end in terms of employment I've decided to study IT from now on.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 19 Sep 2011, 12:09

kostas22 wrote: So my success have been minor and also my last, after realising media is somewhat of a dead end in terms of employment I've decided to study IT from now on.

Wise guy!

Pieman · Post by **Pieman** » 28 Sep 2011, 14:14

Nice one JPM - I also had work published in Autosport earlier this year, although nothing as glamorous as MotoGP (it was a report of a Classic Sports Car Club meeting at Anglesey Circuit). Hope your placement leads to bigger things.

Tealy · Post by **Tealy** » 01 Oct 2011, 20:17

DanielPT wrote:
kostas22 wrote: So my success have been minor and also my last, after realising media is somewhat of a dead end in terms of employment I've decided to study IT from now on.

Wise guy!

Hate to say it but so is IT at the moment, at least in the North East of England. Out of 23 graduates on my course (graduated July 2011) 5 have jobs so far .... I'm one of the lucky ones.

jpm · Post by **jpm** » 02 Oct 2011, 12:50

Pieman wrote:Nice one JPM - I also had work published in Autosport earlier this year, although nothing as glamorous as MotoGP (it was a report of a Classic Sports Car Club meeting at Anglesey Circuit). Hope your placement leads to bigger things.

So are you in touch with Kev Turner then? I need to send him a report when I'm next at a track, but thats the problem; I'm very rarely free on weekends....

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