I had an article published in the newspaper, but it seemed like they didn't even make en effort to edit out the typos. There are three typos in my piece (connect instead of connections) and now i am disappointed I can't show it to anyone, use it in my portfolio or that its under my name. Is there any advice you have?

Did you make the typos, or did they?

If you made them, then it’s a lesson learned for you: proofread your own work more thoroughly because you can’t rely on other people to do it for you, even if those other people are supposedly editors by trade! Be proud of every piece you submit.

If they made the mistakes, you could try pointing it out to them in hopes that they will be better about that stuff in the future, but it won’t change how the article looks, obviously.

I once wrote an article I was really proud of for a newspaper, and by the time they published it, they had edited it into a total mess. Words and phrases had been removed and shuffled around without anyone bothering to fix verb tenses and other little details like that, so it looked like I hadn’t proofread it at all, when in fact it was totally grammatically correct when I submitted it.

I was really bummed, obviously, and I considered not including it in my profile at all because I don’t think it reflects well on me. It’s in my portfolio but it’ll be one of the first things I remove when I have better work to replace it.

If you want to include it in your portfolio, you could always edit out the mistakes and publish the edited version in your portfolio. Some people would say that’s dishonest but I don’t think it is, provided you’re not the one who made the mistakes to begin with.