The New York Times Company and the Newspaper Guild of New York have reached a conceptual agreement on a new five-year contract. The tentative compromise reached late today with the aid of a mediator is subject to ratification by Guild members. At the request of Mediator Martin Scheinman, details will not be released until language is finalized. The Guild Negotiating Committee has voted to support the settlement, which preserves a Defined Benefit Pension, protects the jointly trusteed medical plan, and includes increases in compensation. We will provide more information in coming days, and a ratification meeting will be scheduled in the near future.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Tom Moore makes a baseball trade
Tom Moore is back for the ninth year on Tom Giffin's Roy Robbs World Series staff.
"We
have 218 teams this year, including one women's group from Japan," Tom reports. "And this year I traded in my former bodyguards for these two ladies...Meg and Kim."
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Online revenue to overtake print
Digital media this year could exceed the $35.8 billion that U.S. print magazines and newspapers garnered in ad revenue in 2011.
See report
See report
Lisa Abraham to speak at Author! Author! event
Beacon Journal food editor Lisa Abraham will be speaking November 14 at the Our Lady of Elms Author! Author! series. She is the author of Famous Chefs & Fabulous Recipes.
A native of Niles, Ohio, Lisa is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. Abraham is the recipient of numerous writing and reporting awards and has been named best food columnist by the Association of Food Journalists and was twice named best lifestyle columnist in the Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards.
A newspaper writer in Ohio for more than twenty-five years, she previously worked for The Blade in Toledo and the Tribune Chronicle in Warren. Her work regularly appears in newspapers across the country through the McClatchy-Tribune news service. When she’s not working, Abraham can be found at home in her kitchen, cooking up food and fun with her husband, Richard Hart.
This fall marks the 26th season of Author! Author! at Our Lady 0f the Elms. In 1987 the Elms Alumnae Association inaugurated a three session book and author luncheon/lecture/signing series. The program gave national and local authors the forum to speak to avid readers in the Akron area.
The series has hosted more than 120 well-known authors and has hosted an audience of more than 325 constituents per venue for years. In addition the series has raised more than $450,000 in scholarship dollars for young women to receive an Elms education. Scholarship dollars are raised through patron tickets, sponsorships, and book sales.
Event Schedule:
11:00 am Doors open, Books available for purchase
11:30 am Light buffet luncheon begins
12:20 pm Auditorium doors open
12:30 pm Author talk begins
1:45 pm Book signing am dessert
Get Ticket information
A native of Niles, Ohio, Lisa is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. Abraham is the recipient of numerous writing and reporting awards and has been named best food columnist by the Association of Food Journalists and was twice named best lifestyle columnist in the Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards.
A newspaper writer in Ohio for more than twenty-five years, she previously worked for The Blade in Toledo and the Tribune Chronicle in Warren. Her work regularly appears in newspapers across the country through the McClatchy-Tribune news service. When she’s not working, Abraham can be found at home in her kitchen, cooking up food and fun with her husband, Richard Hart.
This fall marks the 26th season of Author! Author! at Our Lady 0f the Elms. In 1987 the Elms Alumnae Association inaugurated a three session book and author luncheon/lecture/signing series. The program gave national and local authors the forum to speak to avid readers in the Akron area.
The series has hosted more than 120 well-known authors and has hosted an audience of more than 325 constituents per venue for years. In addition the series has raised more than $450,000 in scholarship dollars for young women to receive an Elms education. Scholarship dollars are raised through patron tickets, sponsorships, and book sales.
Event Schedule:
11:00 am Doors open, Books available for purchase
11:30 am Light buffet luncheon begins
12:20 pm Auditorium doors open
12:30 pm Author talk begins
1:45 pm Book signing am dessert
Get Ticket information
Newsweek to end print editions
Newsweek magazine, which will be 80 next year, will have
its last printed edition Dec. 31, 2012. The octogenarian will be completely digital in 2013 as Newsweek Global.
IAC/Interactive Corp, Newsweek’s parent company, reported
a $7.3 million quarterly loss from its media operations, which include Newsweek
and The Daily Beast. Newsweek’s print advertising is in a freefall – down $334
million, or 70%, from 2007 to 2011.
Computer tablets have grown from 13 million to 70 million
in just two years. Thirty-nine percent of Americans get their news from a
digital source.
To read the entire article, click on http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/18/news/companies/newsweek-print-edition/index.html
Monday, October 15, 2012
Connie Bloom art quilts on display
Former Beacon Journal editor/reporter/columnist Connie Bloom's art quilts are being featured through Oct. 27 in A Celebration of American Crafts show at the Don Drumm Studios and Gallery, 437 Crouse Street, around the corner from the University of Akron's Infocision Stadium.
Connie is a “textile artist,” meaning she puts together
fabric that looks like paintings. She hand
dyes, hand paints and hand prints much of her cloth.
Other
stops for Connie next year are Heart of Ohio Quilt
Guild in Newark, April 16-17; Talk & Trunk Show, Calico Hearts, in Ravenna,
May 14; Talk & Trunk Show, North Coast Needlers, Rocky River, Aug. 13; and
a pet portraits workshop in Rocky River, Aug. 17.
Connie’s shop is on the third floor of Summit Artspace, 140 E. Market
Street, where her phone number is (330) 472-0161.
Reading of printed page plummets
In only a decade the percentage of Americans reading a printed newspaper has fallen from 41 percent to 23 percent, according to a Pew Research
Center poll. More and more, we are reading our newspapers digitally rather than
in print -- Internet, hand-held, etc.
Book readings in print are down 8 percent and, for magazines,
7 percent since 2006.
While watching the news on television remains at 55
percent, only 34 percent of those younger than 30 watch (49 percent did in
2006).
To read the entire article, click on http://houston.cbslocal.com/2012/10/15/study-less-than-a-quarter-of-americans-read-newspapers/?shared=email&msg=fail
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Jim Ricci's mother dies at 98
Former Beacon Journal reporter Jim Ricci's mother died. The email from Jim:
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Fellas,
I want you to know that my mother, Cecilia Ricci, died
yesterday at age 98.
yesterday at age 98.
She
had a great run. Her decline began only a few
weeks ago, and she was under hospice care for only a few days.
weeks ago, and she was under hospice care for only a few days.
Of course,
we in the family are sad, but also grateful for the long, spirited life she had.
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“Yesterday” was Friday, Oct. 12. Jim’s email to friends was forwarded to BJ Alums blog by former BJ reporter Bill Hershey (now with the Dayton Daily News).
Jim
left the BJ for the Detroit Free Press, joining former BJ managing editor Scott
Bosley as part of the “Akron Mafia” in the newsroom.
Jim’s next stop was the
Los Angeles Times, as a Pulitzer Prize finalist columnist till his 2008
retirement.
Jim
has two daughters by first wife Kathy (they were married 30 years), Annie
the opera singer and Laura the artist. He has a son and a daughter by his current companion, Carrie, a TV and film
executive.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Dawidziak is frightful again
Current Plain Dealer and former Beacon Journal television
writer Mark Dawidziak and his wife, Sara Showman, are still frightening people.
This time it’s “an evening of folk tales and true ghost stories” at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 18 at the Nordonia Hills Branch of the Akron-Summit County
Library at 9458 Olde Eight Road, Northfield.
Mark and Sara, who live in Cuyahoga Falls, have been presenting Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens and
Mark Twain shows in the area for years. Sometimes they include daughter Becky.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Beth Hertz writes Medical Economics cover story
Beth Thomas Hertz wrote the cover story for the latest issue of Medical Economics magazine discussing how primary care physician earnings remain flat.
Read the story
Read the story
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Traveling top retirees topic
All that came out of the conversation today at the
monthly lunch for Beacon Journal retirees and their family members at Papa Joe’s
Restaurant on Akron/Peninsula Road at Portage Trail Extension.
Rosetta Sholdar Blanton will be visiting her birthplace.
Lonnie’s mother also was born in Hopkinsville. Rosetta’s mother and Lonnie’s
mom were sisters and Hopkinsville natives. Rosetta’s husband, BJ engraving
retiree Watson Blanton, died in 2009.
Rosetta and Lonnie live near each other
in the Merriman Road and Palisades areas of Akron.
Rosetta will be visiting her brother, who still lives in
Hopkinsville.
Rosetta told how she sold the last of the 10 acres that her and husband Watson owned in Clearwater, Florida. The buyer kept upping the price because it was the last land left that hadn't been developed and built on in that area. Rosetta kept saying: "Can't you give me a little bit more?" The buyer did, again and again, so Rosetta got thousands of dollars more than the original offer.
BJ newsroom retiree Tom Moore will leave next week for former
BJ Sports Editor Tom Giffen’s Roy Hobbs Baseball World Series for older guys in
Fort Myers. The tournament, which has nearly 300 teams, lasts into November.
Tom writes and publishes the daily newsletter for the players, plus whatever
else Tom Giffen wants him to do. Giffen pays Moore for his skills and provides Moore
with lodging.
Tracy McClellan, daughter of retired printer Gene
McClellan, who died in March 2012, has sold Gene’s vintage cars and motorcycle
but still is trying to dispose of the Mogadore home that Gene had.
That’s where
Tracy is living till she can settle pop’s affairs and return to her husband,
Ken, in their Albuquerque home. They moved there while Tracy works on her law
degree through the University of New Mexico.
Tracy’s sister, Erin, lives in California. Their brother,
Dean, lives in Japan.
Newsroom retiree John and former State Desk reporter Paula will be flying to Paris for an Oct.
25-Nov. 2 stay (between WVU Mountaineer football games, of course), John’s 8th
anniversary present to Paula. While they’ve been to 50 countries together, it’s
the first visit to Paris for John, unless you count a stop at Charles DeGaulle
Airport on the way from Venice to New York City.
Retired printer Al Hunsicker also joined the lunch bunch.
The sextet provided the third-highest attendance at the
monthly chat-and-chew events since August 2011.
BJ retirees, family and friends are welcome to join the
party at 1 p.m. the second Wednesday of every month at Papa’s Joe Restaurant on
Akron/Peninsula Road at Portage Trail Extension.
Monday, October 08, 2012
How does media stop plagiarism?
Mallary Jean
Tenore in Poyntner.com writes about ways to prevent plagiarism at college
newspapers and maybe in real-world newsrooms, too.
Penn State’s student newspaper The Daily Collegian,
suspended a writer for plagiarizing and fabricating quotes by Sue
Paterno, the widow of former coach Joe Paterno. This was the paper’s second
plagiarism case this year.
In September, Arizona State University’s State Press and Columbia University’s Daily Spectator both revealed that their
students had plagiarized.
Problems include:
Taking information from another source, which may have plagiarized the information.
Relying heavily on source material rather than getting the information first-hand.
Quoting what a person says on TV.
Some
colleges are requiring their student newspaper’s reporters to provide sourcing
notes with their stories and then send out the story to the sources quoted asking if the quotes are accurate.
Some
train their reporters about plagiarism, although plagiarized quotes were in
stories written by reporters who had been trained.
Some
use plagiarism-detecting software to see if identical or similar wording is
used elsewhere on the Internet.
The
author suggests that some of these tactics might be used in mainstream
newsrooms, too. Plagiarized stories appeared in NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Wired,
Time, CNN and The Boston Globe.
To read
the full story, click on http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/journalism-education/190754/10-ways-to-prevent-plagiarism-fabrication-at-college-newspapers-and-in-any-newsroom/
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Attending lunch with Linda McElroy
Beacon Joural friends attended a lunch at the Golden Corral on S.Arlington St. with Linda McElroy, Becon Circulation Accounting Department retiree who was in town from North Carolina. Atrtending the 11:30 lunch were Bob Craiglow and his wife, Pat, Mike Jewell and Janet Hall in the one photo.and Cheryl Sheinin, Linda, Martha (Cookie) Lipford and Noreen Dimmerling. Not in the photos but attending the luncheon were Mick Dimeff and Carol Eubank.
(Photos and infro from Carol Eubank)
Joseph Kovach funeral Mass is Thursday
Joseph Anthony (Joe) Kovach died from the complications of Alzheimer's disease on September 27, 2012.
He was born June 21, 1956 in Akron, Ohio. Joe graduated from Garfield High School in 1974. He made his living as a journalist first working as a reporter for the Ashtabula Star Beacon. He came back to the Akron based Babcox Publications as a writer and eventually as editor of several of their magazines such as Import Car. He later moved to Michigan and was employed for 15 years by Crain Communications where he was an editor for Auto Week Magazine. As a writer, Joe loved words and loved to read. He was an avid sports fan with a special love for the Cleveland Indians. Joe will be missed by his family and friends.
He was preceded in death by his father, John (Yotz). He is survived by his mother, Mary; and sister, Cindy Kovach of Akron; brothers, Tom and John (Kris) Kovach; niece, Ava; and nephew, Sevi of Austin, Texas; and many cousins.
Joe's family is grateful for the people who cared for him during his illness including the therapists at Bath Manor, the staff at Arden Court especially his guardian angel Ren, and the staff at Hickory Ridge Nursing home. At the end, Joe received care and support from the staff at City Hospital's Acute Palliative Care Unit especially from his cousin and good buddy, Mike Klein; who is a nurse practitioner there.
Cremation has taken place. A Memorial Mass will be held on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 11 a.m. at St. Vincent Catholic Church, 164 W. Market St. in Akron. Fr. Joseph Kraker celebrant. Further interment will be private and held at the convenience of the family.
(Anthony, Akron, 330-724-1281, www.anthonyfh.com)
[Akron Beacon Journal, Akron, OH, Tuesday, October 2, 2012, page B5, col. 2]
He was born June 21, 1956 in Akron, Ohio. Joe graduated from Garfield High School in 1974. He made his living as a journalist first working as a reporter for the Ashtabula Star Beacon. He came back to the Akron based Babcox Publications as a writer and eventually as editor of several of their magazines such as Import Car. He later moved to Michigan and was employed for 15 years by Crain Communications where he was an editor for Auto Week Magazine. As a writer, Joe loved words and loved to read. He was an avid sports fan with a special love for the Cleveland Indians. Joe will be missed by his family and friends.
He was preceded in death by his father, John (Yotz). He is survived by his mother, Mary; and sister, Cindy Kovach of Akron; brothers, Tom and John (Kris) Kovach; niece, Ava; and nephew, Sevi of Austin, Texas; and many cousins.
Joe's family is grateful for the people who cared for him during his illness including the therapists at Bath Manor, the staff at Arden Court especially his guardian angel Ren, and the staff at Hickory Ridge Nursing home. At the end, Joe received care and support from the staff at City Hospital's Acute Palliative Care Unit especially from his cousin and good buddy, Mike Klein; who is a nurse practitioner there.
Cremation has taken place. A Memorial Mass will be held on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 11 a.m. at St. Vincent Catholic Church, 164 W. Market St. in Akron. Fr. Joseph Kraker celebrant. Further interment will be private and held at the convenience of the family.
(Anthony, Akron, 330-724-1281, www.anthonyfh.com)
[Akron Beacon Journal, Akron, OH, Tuesday, October 2, 2012, page B5, col. 2]
Monday, October 01, 2012
Bored readers deserting newspapers
Everyone blames the Internet for newspapers’ plummeting
bottom line, but a Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly says the
newspapers are the problem: They need more engaging
and stimulating content.
Study authors Rachel Davis Mersey, Edward C. Malthouse and Bobby J. Calder suggested "a question of the day around a major, local or even barely known but interesting news story that runs on the front page and is designed to encourage conversation among readers and between readers and the newsroom."
Yesterday's newspaper models don't work in today's high-tech, quick-satisfaction world.
To read the article, click on http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120927174912.htm#.UGmTI6dqErs.email