My DD16 and DD15 started their journalism career when they were in middle school. We live in a city of 50,000 people where a weekly community newspaper fills the needs of local information. They published a few news reports such as robotic competition in middle schools and commentary on school bounds, stuff like that. When they enter high school, the newspaper offered them a column. 500-600 words every two weeks. They don�t get any money for doing that. The free weekly newspaper is not exactly rich. But there is no limitation either. Any topic is fine as long as they deliver every two weeks.
They ran with opportunity. Now three years later, they are still writing the bi-weekly column for all kinds of topics. This year, they even won the best column of Greater Bay Area Professional Journalism Award (non-dailies) this year. My DD16, now in college, considered that this is the best job ever.
