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Monday, May 31, 2010

News of Composing retirees' health care lawsuit victory spreads to Canada

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Today's Toronto Globe and Mail has a lengthy story on the BJ printers' lawsuit against the Beacon Journal over health care changes. ...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

Checking in on Bob Kotzbauer

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After some prodding, we got this email from Bob Kotzbauer, who was the Beacon Journal's Columbus bureau chief and editorial writer befor...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Rx math madness

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I'm in the donut hole by more than $400 (which means I pay all the costs of certain drugs for the rest of the year) because of the math ...

There's no escaping Chuck Klosterman -- even on a trip

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Paula is in New York City, taking in Broadway shows before she'll drive to Fairmont, West Virginia, to join me Friday in Fairmont, West ...
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Beacon Journal Features Dept. reunion -- decades later

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Every Beacon Journal television critic from the past three decades had lunch today with David Bianculli, who held the job in 1980-83. Sittin...
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Heldenfels discusses predecessor and his Smothers Brothers book

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Current Beacon Journal television critic Rich Heldenfels discusses his 1980-83 predecessor, David Bianculli, and David's book about the ...
Sunday, May 23, 2010

Primo welcome for Bianculli

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Before former (1980-83) Beacon Journal television critic David Bianculli, a Communications College professor at Rowan University and autho...

Larry Dubravetz dies

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Former Beacon Journal Human Resources director Larry Dubravetz, 64, died Thursday, May 20. The Kent State graduate was a Vietnam war hero wh...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

BJ health coverage ruling favoring printers gets national attention

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The retired printers' temporary injunction against diminished Beacon Journal health care coverage got national attention. The Bureau of ...

Debbie pays tribute to Akron's Diamond Deli carrot cake

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Debby Stock Kiefer, who spent 28 years at the Beacon Journal before she took the 2006 buyout, paid tribute to Akron's Diamond Deli, 378 ...

Grumpy Abe drives right (pun intended) into $%$# philosophy

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Abe Zaidain, once a writing coach and political columnist at the Beacon Journal till the Jim Crutchfield regime change, drove over to Ohio S...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Want a job? Try here

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There are plenty of newspaper jobs out there. Oh, not the New York Times. But this site is the online equivalent of the Editor & Publish...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

Newspaper death watch

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The devastating list of U.S. metropolitan dailies that have gone out of business since March 2007: Tucson Citizen Rocky Mountain News Baltim...

Can slayer be the savior?

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Google and its companions on the Internet have played a major role in the rapid and steady decline in newspaper circulation and revenue. Can...

Feeling happy? This can cure that

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If you're happy and giddy and want to come down to earth, click on the headline and read about plummeting newspaper revenue and readersh...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Everybody at Philly newspapers will be fired May 25

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EVERY employee at the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com will be fired May 25. That's when the bankruptcy...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Dave White looking for retirees to join lawsuit against Beacon

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Dave White sent this email to the BJ Alums blog: Any retirees who are experiencing the same problems I did with the BJ not living up to the ...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Job openings at CNN

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Former BJ staffer Jim Kavanagh relays these CNN job openings. With all the layoffs, maybe someone reading this might be interested. The open...
Friday, May 14, 2010

BJ story on printers' health care lawsuit

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May 15 Daily Backgrounder Page D2 Newspaper ordered to restore benefits A judge has issued a preliminary injunction against the Akron Beacon...

PD story on BJ/Printers lawsuit

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Federal judge orders Akron Beacon Journal to restore retiree health care benefits By Pat Galbincea, The Plain Dealer May 13, 2010, 6:54PM AK...