{"id":1787,"date":"2016-11-01T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T09:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2016-11-01T11:39:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T09:39:05","slug":"become-sng-contributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2016\/11\/01\/become-sng-contributor\/","title":{"rendered":"Become an SNG contributor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planning a career in journalism? Get valuable experience as a Student News Grid contributor. You do not need to have studied journalism to apply, but you must have a passion for journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Student News Grid is looking for aspiring student journalists to\u00a0contribute articles as we strive to reflect the diverse voices of students today.<\/p>\n<p>We are ideally looking for people who can commit to providing at least one article per week (more is welcome), but we are also happy to consider once-off or occasional submissions that are of sufficient quality and relevant to our readers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it takes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Self-starter who is ambitious and able to take initiative.<\/li>\n<li>Driven by your passion to write.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to meet deadlines, especially when writing news articles.<\/li>\n<li>Curious, eager and motivated to uncover stories.<\/li>\n<li>Perseverance when writing a story despite challenges.<\/li>\n<li>Ethical in your approach to stories and sources.<\/li>\n<li>Research skills &#8211; knowing how to source stories using social media and where to find the information you require in order to fully understand the topic before writing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download a copy of the application form below\u00a0and once completed, mail it to\u00a0Jody at editor@studentnewsgrid.com.<\/p>\n<p>[restrict userlevel=&#8221;subscriber&#8221;] To download the application form, please click here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Application-Form.docx\">application-form<\/a> [\/restrict]<\/p>\n<p>[not_logged_in]NB: You are not currently logged in. To access the form, you will need to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/register\/\">register<\/a>\u00a0on the site and <a href=\"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/wordpress\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fstudentnewsgrid.com%2Fgroups%2F\">log in<\/a>. Once you are logged in a download link will appear on this page and replace this message.[\/not_logged_in]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning a career in journalism? Get valuable experience as a Student News Grid contributor. You do not need to have studied journalism to apply, but you must have a passion for journalism. Student News Grid is looking for aspiring student journalists to\u00a0contribute articles as we strive to reflect the diverse voices of students today. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":1811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}