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cene for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Job includes gathering information to write previews, game stories and features for six major schools and many as 20...
blanp
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Jun 5, 1999
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n the days after the shootings at Columbine High School, as people groped for explanations, much was made of the cliques at the school. But for all the talk of...
blanp
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Jun 6, 1999
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ASHINGTON (AP) -- It was a little too warm in the nation's capital today to stir up a serving of goulash for visiting Hungarian President Arpad Goncz. ...
blanp
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Jun 9, 1999
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By Colin McMahon , Tribune Foreign Correspondent <br><br>In a tent four miles from the Yugoslav border, warring NATO and Serbian generals signed an accord ...
blanp
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Jun 10, 1999
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DAMN fine point there. Where IS Madalyn Murray O'Hair when we need her?...
hedlines
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Jun 10, 1999
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Dead....
Fifth_Estate
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Jun 10, 1999
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Well, that's the theory....
hedlines
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Jun 11, 1999
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Bob "The Captain" Williams of The Washington Post, former copy editor, layout man, comics editor and index-meister, and most recently obituary writer, died...
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Jun 12, 1999
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(continued from Editing 101, Part I)<br><br>Inside, we settled into the seats with 80 or 90 other passengers and waited. And waited some more. Finally, the ...
blanp
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Jun 13, 1999
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***Here's a pleasant exercise. You've been given this story to edit. What do you do?***<br><br> When I joined a backpacking safari in Zimbabwe last October, I ...
blanp
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Jun 13, 1999
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Is suicide an option?...
deanbetz
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Jun 14, 1999
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No. Hint: Think big picture....
blanp
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Jun 14, 1999
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Don't screw it up. Then put a good headline on it....
bartleby999
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Jun 15, 1999
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&gt;&gt;Don't screw it up. Then put a good headline on it. &lt;&lt;<br><br>First: What questions come to mind?...
blanp
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Jun 15, 1999
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From the "ethical guidlines" issued June 14 by Gannett:<br><br>"Follow a simple rule on the copy desk to double-check the accuracy of headlines: "Find the...
blanp
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Jun 15, 1999
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I'd want to know, first, whether it had been/could be verified and second why we were running a first person, no source story that just tells an anecdote....
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Jun 15, 1999
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Sakickl:<br><br>Bingo! You're the winner. Before anyone worries about not screwing up the prose, or writing a terrific headline, worry abut whether or not the...
blanp
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Jun 15, 1999
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One aside re. your comments "justice to the enormity of the error": enormity means monstrous, extreme evil. It does not refer to the immensity of something....
mattice1
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Jun 15, 1999
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Yup, that's what it means and that's what I meant....
blanp
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Jun 15, 1999
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Lest I be accused of being negative to the point of obsession, let me alert those of you who don't read the Los Angeles Times or use the Times-Post News ...
blanp
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Jun 15, 1999
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MANAGING EDITOR The Observer & Eccentric Newspapers is seeking an upbeat, energetic person to oversee our Wayne County editorial department. The qualified ...
blanp
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Jun 19, 1999
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Well, the job might be a nightmare, but at least you'd get to live in bucolic Wayne County, Michigan....
wfwalsh
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Jun 19, 1999
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I wrote earlier about the outstanding job that Paul Watson of the Los Angeles Times has done covering the war in Kosovo. Imagine my dismay, then, when he ...
blanp
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Jun 23, 1999
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CITY EDITOR Suburban Philadelphia 34,000 AM seeks well-organized assigning editor to lead award-winning local news staff. If you anticipate trends as well as...
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Jun 26, 1999
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American Indian Rally Turns Violent<br>PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- A demonstration by American Indian activists turned violent Saturday as people ransacked a store and...
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Jun 27, 1999
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ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR<br>32,000 circulation daily 30 miles west of Cleveland looking for an assistant for our four-person metro desk.<br>Our reporters are ...
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Jun 28, 1999
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By Howard Kurtz<br>Washington Post Staff Writer<br>Monday, June 28, 1999; Page C01 <br><br>"NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" was at the top of its game during the war...
blanp
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Jun 28, 1999
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I also used to have low regard for community coverage, probably due in part to bottom-feeding city editors who thought that a weekly rewrite of the school ...
deanbetz
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Jun 29, 1999
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God bless you, Dean. I know it has to be done and I'm glad someone doesn't mind doing it....
blanp
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Jun 29, 1999
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The key here is the community groups do it themselves with our resources. Whenever I look over those sites, I keep saying to myself, "g-o-u-l-a-s-h."...
deanbetz
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Jun 29, 1999
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