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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...
blanp
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Jul 3, 1999
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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,...
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Jul 3, 1999
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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...
mgcowhig
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Jul 4, 1999
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&gt;&gt;This is rather off-topic, but here's yet &gt;&gt;another reason to go for that Pekin position:<br>&gt;&gt;My former roommate says that until a few...
blanp
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Jul 4, 1999
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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...
blanp
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Jul 10, 1999
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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,...
wfwalsh
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Jul 12, 1999
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y Charles Burress, Chronicle Staff Writer <br><br>Berkeley's landmark radio station KPFA appeared to be exploding in slow motion yesterday with employees...
blanp
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Jul 16, 1999
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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,...
blanp
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Jul 17, 1999
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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...
blanp
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Jul 19, 1999
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"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...
nuteachside
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Jul 19, 1999
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Inquiries during employment interviews about marital status are of course illegal. The law probably should be extended to cover questions such as, "What eight...
blanp
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Jul 19, 1999
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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...
sparrow111
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Jul 21, 1999
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Not to mention "irrelevant."...
sparrow111
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Jul 21, 1999
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COPY EDITOR The Environmental News Network, the No. 1 environment daily news service on the Internet &lt;<a href=http://www.enn.com&gt;...
blanp
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Jul 27, 1999
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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...
blanp
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Jul 31, 1999
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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 ...
blanp
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Jul 31, 1999
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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...
tman147
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Jul 31, 1999
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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...
blanp
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Aug 1, 1999
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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...
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Aug 4, 1999
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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...
majorbabs
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Aug 4, 1999
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Flip a coin. No two people agree on this. Or recast the headline: Tenacious 2 Win Award....
blanp
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Aug 4, 1999
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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...
verbvixen
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Aug 6, 1999
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COPY EDITORS - Metropolitan daily seeks experienced copy editors with strong grasp of grammar, spelling, sentence structure and AP style. Full-time ...
blanp
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Aug 7, 1999
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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,...
blanp
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Aug 7, 1999
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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 ...
blanp
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Aug 7, 1999
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Re. blanp's earlier posting on the Gacy photo gaffe cf. &lt;a href="<a href=http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/opinion.pat,opinion/3773be6d.805,.html...
mattice1
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Aug 10, 1999
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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...
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Aug 11, 1999
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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 ...
blanp
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Aug 13, 1999
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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...
blanp
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Aug 13, 1999
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(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 ...
blanp
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