HEyHEY
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Mon Sep-17-07 11:25 PM
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So, who else here is/has been a journalist? |
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I've been surprised lately by a couple people telling me they are or were. Anyone else?
What's your beat?
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CaliforniaPeggy
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Mon Sep-17-07 11:32 PM
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Well, I sort of was, about 35 plus years ago!
I wrote a weekly column called Shoppeople for my weekly newspaper...
It was basically a puff piece, some free advertising for the shop that I visited...
It was fun, though!
I'd interview the owners about how they got started, what their products were and so on...
I did it on a weekly basis for two years...
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Mon Sep-17-07 11:36 PM
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2. Inasmuch as trade journalism is journalism, I was a journalist. |
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Contract janitorial, exciting stuff.
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Tue Sep-18-07 12:40 AM
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I was. Wrote for a business weekly for a while.
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Tue Sep-18-07 09:41 AM
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4. Can I assume, by your username, you're in law now? |
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(2L at Marquette here. :hi:)
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Tue Sep-18-07 09:43 AM
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5. I was a correspondent to the Worcester Telegram |
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I would cover news in the town of Hubbardston, MA.
I loved it. I wish I had started doing that when I was much younger... it might have developed into a career.
I can't do that now because I can't afford the pay cut.
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:11 AM
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6. I've been a cartoonist |
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Closest I've ever been to one
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:14 AM
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7. Me - but you know that :) |
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:19 AM
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8. When I was in jr high/high school, I wrote a monthly column for a tropical fish club magazine |
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Tue Sep-18-07 11:57 AM
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9. I'm a copy editor for 10 outdoors magazines. |
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Edited on Tue Sep-18-07 11:57 AM by RebelOne
So I guess that would put me in the journalism field.
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Jeff In Milwaukee
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Tue Sep-18-07 12:18 PM
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10. Recovering Journalist |
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Mostly freelance but occasionally on staff. I covered everything from murder trials to high school sports.
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Tue Sep-18-07 12:19 PM
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11. Thought about becoming one... |
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Tue Sep-18-07 12:20 PM
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12. do underground newspapers count? |
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Tue Sep-18-07 12:23 PM
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Haha, well, that depends. By underground do you mean a blog? In which case, they don't.
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Tue Sep-18-07 12:33 PM
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...and I used to date the editor-in-chief of a college paper. :P I thought about going into journalism for a while, but realized I wasn't good with deadlines. :blush: So I guess this post is pretty much pointless. :shrug: Sorry.
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Tue Sep-18-07 03:14 PM
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she was the editor of her college yearbook, her senior year. She worked for a magazine in, SLC, before she met my dad. She always had great grammar, could spell, typed and proof-read very well. I can't spell or type and can barely get my point across. I was pretty sure DU thought I was a freeper in disguise, my first year here, because I'm so sarcastic and incoherent, most of the time. I'm just a dumb, Democrat. It happens.
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Tue Sep-18-07 12:38 PM
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15. I was editor of the "Youth Notes" column in my parish newsletter. |
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Tue Sep-18-07 01:52 PM
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16. Does the University of New Haven News count? |
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I was even assistant news editor for a time, whatever that was. :shrug:
Other credits include "rip 'n' read" college radio news, plus a column for a news website out here that was intended to replace a soon-to-be-folding daily; the site died after Canadian David Black stepped in to save the Star-Bulletin! Thanks, eh?
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Tue Sep-18-07 02:27 PM
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17. Journalist Photographer |
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but the slimmest of margins
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Tue Sep-18-07 02:40 PM
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18. I wrote for a small college paper |
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the college was small the paper itself was your basic standard newspaper size
Tennis and Girl's Basketball.
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