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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

List compiled on status of layoffs

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There is finally a list on the BJ Retirees web site indicating the status of Beacon Journal staff members who were laid off in August. The ...
Monday, October 30, 2006

Letter asks community support

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The web site of the Beacon Journal unit of the Newspaper Guild displays a letter being sent to Beacon supporters asking them to e-mail publi...
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Sunday, October 29, 2006

Holy cannoli, has it been fun.

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Food editor Jane Snow is leaving the Akron Beacon Journal, but she isn't hanging up her apron just yet. Jane will continue to write her ...
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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Leo Osmar's lifetime job recollection

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Retired Beacon Journal composing room employee Leo V. Osmar wrote down some of his recollections of the composing room in the 1960s and a sp...
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Friday, October 27, 2006

Saying goodbye to Mike Needs

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Did you miss Mike Needs party at Larry's on Thursday night? No problem. Just click on the headline. Jim Arnold has a gallery of photos ...
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Tom Reed off to Columbus Dispatch

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Beacon Journal sports columnist Tom Reed was saved from layoff, but he decided to resign. He begins work as a feature writer at the Columbus...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Bandy returns from Florida for visit

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Retired veteran rewrite man Don Bandy was back in Akron during the weekend to attend the wedding of a grand niece in Hudson. His visit offer...
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Linda is back in BJ library

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Linda Golz is back at her old desk in the Beacon Journal library, but she will be moving up to a job as a reporter or copy editor. Linda was...

Balogh designs freelance future

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Beacon Journal artist Dennis Balogh has decided to resign and devote his full energies to his freelance business. Here is his sketch of thin...
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It's last column, but it isn't goodbye for Jane

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Here's the lead on Jane Snow's final "Tidbits" column: This is my final Tidbits column, but it's not goodbye. Although...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Say goodbye to Mike Needs

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There will be a farewell party for Mike Needs on Thursday, October 26. Friends are going to drag him away from his bicycle from 7 to 9: p.m....

Tom working in Florida again

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Tom Moore is in Florida again, working for former Beacon Journal Sports Editor Tom Giffen. Giffen, 57, is the owner of Roy Hobbs Baseball, a...
Monday, October 23, 2006

Mercury News to axe up to 101,

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Mercury News to axe up to 101, including 15 percent of newsroom The San Jose Mercury News plans to lay off as many as 101 employees over the...
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Sunday, October 22, 2006

Off-Beat Story: O.K. Corral

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Thursday will mark the 125th anniversary of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. On Oct. 26, 1881, building tension between the Earps, who repre...
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Saturday, October 21, 2006

Merrill College to add Knight names

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation last month made a $4.4 million, multi-part grant to the Philip Merrill Colleg...
Friday, October 20, 2006

Foundation bid on BJ

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The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation submitted a bid this year to buy the Akron Beacon Journal., but the foundation decided to bow ou...

Commentary on magic date

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Tomorrow is the magic date ending the 60-day notice period. Surprisingly, it appears that only four or five of those laid off is still looki...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

Knight Museum, U of Akron get funds

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New multimillion-dollar investments in two high-profile projects in Akron by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation were announced today...

Salary pegged to revenue opposed

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Controversial Boston Globe contract proposal heading for defeat A controversial contract proposal at The Boston Globe, which for the first t...

Sarah's final P.S.

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Beacon Journal editorial writer Sarah Vradenburg, a 22-year veteran of the newspaper, wrote her final PostScript on today's editorial pa...