We have been asked to submit an article to the Guardian for their local gov sections (60,000 Unique visitors/month) by Friday morning. The instructions are as follows:
600 words
1. What you are going - details?
2. What you’ve found? Any success so far?
3. Why what you are doing - you can talk about your broader approach to employment as you mentioned over the phone.
4. Based on the above, what advice would you give to councils.
Don’t worry if you run over I can always edit it down for you. Thanks
Sarah
It will appear here:http://www.theguardian.com/local-government-network
Examples:
http://www.theguardian.com/local-government-network/2013/jul/16/residents-mobile-bus-it-skills
Contributor guidelines:
- Please be aware that when we receive your article it will go through the Guardian’s editing process. First, a desk editor will go through the copy for clarity and tone. We will get in touch with you if we have any questions or clarifications at this stage, and may run a new version by you if it has been heavily edited. It will then be checked for house style and any legal issues by our sub editors, who will also write the headline.
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