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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Oblander in BJ print after absence of 2 decades

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Terry Oblander’s byline is in the Beacon Journal again after an absence of two decades. He was just hired by the Beacon Journal as a part-ti...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Mark & Mark at it again

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Former BJ TV critic Mark Dawidziak, who escaped to Cleveland with two dozen others in the recent decade, will be performing "Twain by T...
Monday, March 29, 2010

St. Louis Guild OKS 6% pay cut

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By a vote of 132 to 54, the St. Louis Newspaper Guild on Saturday  approved a 5½-year contract with the Post-Dispatch calling for a 6 per ...

Charles 'Chick' Lipford calling hours Tuesday

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His wife. Martha, was retired from BJ accounting department Charles "Chick" G. Lipford passed away on March 26, 2010. Charles w...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Meet Ethel Myers: BJ society editor in 1930

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[Updated 3/29/2010 to provide complete address.] Ethel Myers, who was Beacon Journal Society editor back in 1930, probably would not have t...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Week without pay

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Memo to Fort Worth Star-Telegram employees To: All Employees From: Gary Wortel Subject: Furlough Announcement Date: March 22, 2010 Al...

$300 million newspaper sold for $20 million

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DAYTONA BEACH -- A federal judge on Tuesday approved the sale of the News-Journal Corp. for $20 million, saying there was no evidence the ne...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Tom Moore: Now he's a railroader?

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Would you believe, Tom Moore is a railroader? Tom has his own blog similar to this--except he rarely writes anything. He is retired, you k...
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Chocolate lovers flock to Montague store

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  Amanda and Joshua Montague: Chocolate lovers flock to their store The daughter-in-law and son of retired Beacon Journal copy editor Char...

Dawidziak "enchanting" as Twain keynote speaker

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Mark Dawidziak was "enchanting" in Wooster, according to a review of his discussion of humorist/author Mark Twain by the Wooster ...
Monday, March 22, 2010

How health care bill affects retirees' Rx donut hole

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The health care bill just passed will deal with the prescription donut hole, which retirees are quite familiar with. Once retirees get pas...

Whatever happened to Dick? Beacon Mag?

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Former copy editor Dick McLinden, who retired in 1990, got a couple of unwanted gifts just before Christmas. McLinden, who still lives in No...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Amanpour leaves CNN for 'This Week'

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Christiane Amanpour announced Thursday she is leaving CNN to become anchor of "This Week" on ABC. Following is the text of an e...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

St. Louis Post-Dispatch offer: 6% pay cut

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The  St. Louis Post-Dispatch  presented its unionized newsroom staff its “last, best and final offer” Tuesday as managers and employees st...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Briggs named chair of Knight board

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Robert Briggs started his four-year term Tuesday as chairman of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Board of Trustees. He su...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Briefs from Guild Reporter

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Briefs in the January/March issue of The Guild Reporter About the Canton Repository A new two-year contract was ratified Dec. 8 by membe...

State of Media? Just read the boldface

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The Project for Excellence in Journalism has just released its annual  "State of the News Media" report. You can find it on our ...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

BJ retiree Maxine Lozier dies in Columbus

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Maxine (Johnson) Lozier was a retired Beacon Journal communications supervisor. Her husband, Ted, died April 13, 2008  in Louisville, KY,...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Newspapers Must Be Kept Alive as Print Editions

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Printed newspapers are dying left and right, being replaced by online news and broadcast news. Yet there are reasons to keep pr...

Ex-Knight reporter Mary Swartz dies

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Mary Elizabeth Swartz, age 87, passed away at the Hospice Care Center on March 7th, 2010, with her daughter and son at her side. Mary died a...