PEKIN DAILY TIMES, an award-winning 15,000 six-day daily near Peoria, IL needs an assistant city editor. We seek a highly-motivated, detail-oriented person...
Re: Pekin posting:<br><br>A 15,000-circulation paper really "prefers" a *master's* for a job pulling the wires and shoveling the paper onto the Web? For what,...
This is rather off-topic, but here's yet another reason to go for that Pekin position:<br><br>My former roommate says that until a few years ago, the Pekin...
>>This is rather off-topic, but here's yet >>another reason to go for that Pekin position:<br>>>My former roommate says that until a few...
COVER IT ALL IN ALASKA The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner needs a new general assignment reporter. This is an entry-level position with great potential to build an...
Let's see . . . the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is the second-*largest* newspaper in the nation's *largest* state? This would be referring to page size, then,...
y Charles Burress, Chronicle Staff Writer <br><br>Berkeley's landmark radio station KPFA appeared to be exploding in slow motion yesterday with employees...
ARE YOU READY for a change? Award-winning West Texas daily newspaper (circ. 30,000) needs several self-starters who are ready to report. Business reporter,...
As part of our campaign against foolishness in employment, here are some questions asked recently of an experienced reporter who was applying for jobs at...
"Are you married?" strikes a nerve. I wonder if it is legal to ask. At an interview some time ago at a large metro, I was grilled about an ex-spouse. As the...
Inquiries during employment interviews about marital status are of course illegal. The law probably should be extended to cover questions such as, "What eight...
We don't have "patriarchs" in our society. That is figurative language. Ditto "prince," "royalty," and "Camelot." "Curses" do not exist. Don't allow people in...
NEWS EDITOR. Another metro stole our news editor. The <br>successor will have a proven track record of ensuring <br>accuracy and credibility in copy editing...
Editors (7/31/99)<br>FIELD EDITOR Illinois AgriNews has a full time opening for a Field Editor work in LaSalle, IL. Seeking experienced reporter, recent ...
By Julia Keller<br>Chicago Trib<br><br>Like a hand spanning an octave on the piano keyboard, reaction to the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. stretched across the...
From www.mediagossip.com:<br><br>Hey, kids, celebrate Clown Week with Mr. Gacy!<br>On its weekend "Family Fun" page, the Kansas City Star notes that summer's...
As a former editor for a small-town weekly, I try to make the news editor's job easier when I send my news -- oops -- press releases, but I'm not getting good...
Sorry for two posts but I'm in the midst of a grammatical quarrel.<br><br>The headline is "Persistent Pair Win Award."<br><br>One of us thinks that because...
Having been in the position of receiving a barrage of press releases, my thought is that e-mail press releases smack of the amateur (any bozo can spam a press...
The American Copy Editors Society holds its third annual conference in Dallas Sept. 9-12. Are any Testy Copy Editor habitues planning to be there? If so,...
As wonderful as the picture (left; of a 1950s city editor from the Schenectady (N.Y.) Gazette, purloined from the charming and out-of-print booklet "The ...
According to one source, The Gregg Reference Manual, it's up to you:<br>"In a number of constructions [of collective nouns], the choice of a singular or plural...
By STEPHEN LABATON <br>New York Times<br><br> WASHINGTON -- Unimaginable as it might have seemed a year ago, President Clinton's top private lawyer and the ...
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A.M. ROSENTHAL<br>A Certain Contagion<br>The choice of subject for this column was difficult for me to make. I knew I did not want to write...
(8/14/99)<br>WHO NEEDS Tae-Bo to intimidate friends, co-workers and strangers when you can tell them you're from (AIEEE) Detroit. Edit copy, write headlines ...