Wouldn't it be a smart idea to give us a subject so the interested could write a test-article. imo it would be the best way to see if somebody really has enough quality to start writing. I've been writing articles for a small university paper. I started as a reviewer but I couldn't take the games home any more so I quit reviewing, still did some analyses on the game industry (specifically on the Dutch market) before quitting all together because I moved over to a different university. I know I'm a pretty good writer and an equated analyser, but I don't know if my English is really up to par to start writing professionally.
I was actually invited once to the review team here on vgchartz, but I got in a fight about that with the main editor of the university paper, because we got games early I wasn't permitted to write for an other source according to him. That was shortly before not letting me take the games home any more. After that I lost the motivation to write for vgchartz, which I'm still regretting.
