On my second day at work, a vicar from whom I was soliciting news informed me kindly I had no chance of getting to Fleet Street without a university degree.
Mr. McDowell plops down his papers, collects his money and solicits news tips.
Like the fabled Mr. Brady, who died in 2009, he was routinely solicited by the news media to pronounce on anything from the ups and downs of hemlines to the ins and outs of the first lady's wardrobe.
He wrote widely in the mainstream press, and his opinions were solicited by the news media on subjects from moles' noses ("No one would find the star-nosed mole ugly if its star were iridescent blue," he told The New York Times in August) to the essential difference between plagiarism and forgery (in the first, one passes off another's work as one's own; in the second, vice versa).
Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a "Notice of Violation" letter in October 2016 and ordered the foundation to "immediately cease soliciting contributions" after news that President Trump may have misused money meant for the charity.
By Françoise Mouly June 29 , 2012We seldom attempt to anticipate the news when we solicit ideas for the covers, but I made an exception recently, in the week leading up to the Supreme Court ruling on Obama's health-care law.
The company announced on Monday that they would partner with Reuters to solicit public contributions to their news service.
There are six people working full-time on the news "UGC hub" who solicit and then distribute this information through the BBC.
Independent of Gannett and its flagship newspaper, USA Today, the foundation does not solicit or accept financial contributions from news companies.
She had been charged with participating in the paper's phone-hacking practices, with covering up evidence, and with involvement in payoffs to silence the police or solicit their help in fetching fresh news stories.
