Did you go to school for that or is it something you picked up and had success with? I don't really know the industry and how people become successful beyond building a market for yourself.
If I were a more confident writer I would start putting effort into producing articles and make writing for the Coyotes my side hustle.
I went to school for it (back when that was still the road into the industry). When I was in the biz, it was a grind to get anywhere. You got paid gigs and jobs by showing skill, smarts, and attention to detail. Needless to say, in the intervening years the standards have dropped precipitously. Now anyone can go out there and publish a blog, start a podcast, and call themselves a content creator with zero training.
The signal-to-noise ratio in "news" these days is ridiculously bad. I can count on one hand the news orgs that still retain their previously stringent standards for due diligence, sourcing, and fact-checking. Because so many people have gone out and offered themselves out in order to satisfy their jones for having people hear their opinions, the market is totally oversaturated - and because there's so much free content out there, fewer people are paying for news, and consequently newsrooms can't afford to pay people to report it.
So I guess it comes down to whether you want to be legit, or whether you want to make money. It's exceedingly rare to do both nowadays. If you want to be legit, learn how to stringently fact-check. The motto goes, "I'd rather be right than be first." Make that your foundational creed. Learn proper sourcing, and never single-source
anything unless you want to be known as a puppet.
If you want to make money, find a niche audience that needs affirmation and give it to them, then set up a Patreon. It's easy money... probably not a great ethical comfort, but in terms of making a living it's about as effective as working in "legitimate" news.
I can talk bs with the best of them.
