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Can You Dig This?

Merging content with the newspaper can actually improve television content. Take, for example, Peter Sleight’s new Fox 61 column “Can You Dig It?” The silly but memorable name and the shade over Peter’s face notwithstanding, this is pretty good info from the assistant business news editor and master gardener. (I still don’t think he needs [...]

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Invasion Of The Interns

Garrard McClendon, blogging for Chicago Now, reminds us that Tribune is looking for interns — around 20, the last time we checked. The main requirements seem to be youth and a willingness to work for little or no money. (We don’t know how the number of internships stacks up against those of years past, but [...]

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Finding New Path Forward

This from Jack Atzinger, former copy editor:            On Monday, I started a paralegal internship at The Hardman McPadden Law Offices, whose main office is in Middletown. The internship is unpaid, but it will be invaluable careerwise. The firm also has asked me to help it create a newsletter. I’ll be paid on a free-lance [...]

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Modern Journerdism Job Terminology Explained

This from John Ward: Here’s a link offered by Leslie-Jean Thornton, once a copy editor at the News-Times and now a professor at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. The linked article addresses some stuff our fellow refugees might find of interest if they’re riding the wave into online [...]

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