Calling all parents: Would you like to be featured in the Guardian?

Donna

<div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.666666984558105px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.666666984558105px;">Hello,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.666666984558105px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.666666984558105px;"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.666666984558105px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.666666984558105px;">I'm a freelance journalist for The Guardian and I</font><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.666666984558105px;">'ve been commissioned to write an article for the Money section that takes </font><span style="font-size: 12.666666984558105px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a really honest and open look at how much money different parents give to/spend on children.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.666666984558105px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.666666984558105px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I was wondering if any Stroud Green parents would like to be featured as an anonymous case study.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.666666984558105px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It would be completely anonymous and the only person who would know what you said would be me. (Even if you're happy to have your name on there, I'd recommend you are anonymous because Guardian readers can be quite vitriolic online.)<br>The format would follow the same format as this article:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.666666984558105px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2013/mar/02/whats-mine-is-mine-couples-cash" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.666666984558105px;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/<wbr>money/2013/mar/02/whats-mine-<wbr>is-mine-couples-cash</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.666666984558105px;"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.666666984558105px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">I would need to know your salary, your partner's salary, your occupations and the age of your children. And then conduct a short telephone interview.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.666666984558105px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.666666984558105px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">If you're interested, please either drop me a direct message or let me know on here how best to contact you and we can take it from there.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.666666984558105px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Thank you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.666666984558105px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.666666984558105px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">All the best</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.666666984558105px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Donna</div>

andy

*<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Guardian readers can be quite vitriolic online.*</span><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">People everywhere tend to be vitriolic online. The Guardian just does more than most to encourage them.</span></div>

miss annie

The Mail has to be the worst. Vitriolic doesn't begin to cover it!

andy

<div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">True. More than most, but not as much as mailonline. Here is a handy website:</font></div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><br></font></div>http://shouldireadthedailymail.com/</font>;

emine

This is another useful site:<div><br></div><div>http://www.tomforth.co.uk/guardiancomments/</div><div><br></div><div>Doesn't really capture the "I can't believe you get paid for this shit"-style comment though, which form approx 36% of total comments.</div>

andy

@emine - from my limited understanding of the economics of the Guardian, I didn't think anyone was getting paid?<div><br></div><div>Hence the coffee shops, 'training days' to play at being a journalist, pin the tail on Jay Rayner, etc. Is there a department that thinks these up, or can anyone have a go?</div>

emine

@andy - well, considering the Guardian's open-journalism-multi-media-coffee-platforms, it would certainly fit their ethos for anyone to have a go. I'm currently working out how they can monetise cat videos. 

andy

You would have thought there was some money in risking everything to reveal the existence of a massive, secret, unchecked global surveillance state, but apparently not. So if it's coffee shops, it's coffee shops.<div><br></div>

vetski

Oh I don't know, the Mail has a certain value - mostly in a 'There but for the grace of God' sense! Plus it's always handy to know exactly what the latest threat is to property prices, and what Harper Beckham is wearing.<div><div><br></div><div>@emine, happy to help on the thinking-about-cat-videos project! </div></div>

Donna

Anyone up for helping me out with my article?

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