Seriously (!) - the level of newspaper calyumnists is, as we see - deplorable. They need to galvanize circulation, and many of the youger applicants for that job - suffer from a too recent experience of our edufuscation establishment, and from terminal regionalism.
You could write subtly enough to include a bit larger scale to many of the potboiler idiocies du jour, eschewing the rote straw women. Screw the 'journalism degree' -- your work stands on its own. (Nobody ever asked Studs terkel for a resum\ufffd - 'cept maybe a HR drone :(
Send in a few samples?
Just a
Ashton