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Originally Posted by flamingdog
Yeah cold calling as a journalist is even worse than selling. You say you're a reporter, they're instantly suspicious of you. Luckily, you eventually build up a few trusted contacts, and the days of buttonholing hapless citizens - while never quite behind you - become fewer and further between.
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That is unless you're stuck as a street reporter in a large city, where the people and topics change every, oh, I don't know, 15 minutes, and you're unlikely to write on thesame topic twice in a period shorter than six months
