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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

How to cover Obamacare? Localize it!

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How should newspapers write about the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare? Tell the readers what it means specifically for them, Tampa T...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Headlines about Navy Yard mass shooting

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Headlines from the Navy yard rampage that killed 12 people plus the shooter. From the Bakersfield Californian, Boston Herald, Boston Met...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Jane Snow deals with tomato tornado

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Jane Snow, perhaps the best food writer in BJ history, got her Savory Tomato Tart story and recipe on HGExpo.com, which also has articles...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Scammers using Obamacare ploys

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  With Obamacare kicking in, scammers are busy trying to trick the elderly into giving banking or credit card information or Social Securit...

Tom Marvin still barn-building

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Former BJ photographer Tom Marvin, when he isn’t traveling thousands of miles through Canada, Mexico and the United States or strumming the...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Catching Up With . . . Mark Price

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Mark J. Price’s “This Place, This Time” articles in the Beacon Journal, along with Bob Dyer’s humor-tinged columns, are two of the brighte...

BJ prescription coverage meets Obamacare standards

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The Beacon Journal's prescription coverage is considered "Creditable Coverage" under Obamacare, the BJ reports, and BJ retire...

TV newscaster John Hambrick dies

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John Hambrick, a former TV newscaster familiar to viewers in markets from New York to Los Angeles, died of lung cancer in Round Rock, Texas...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Dawidziak's wife does everything in 'Pirate's Life'

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  Sara Showman, wife of PD entertainment critic Mark Dawidziak, who had the same job at the BJ before he was among two dozen BJ-ers who fl...
Monday, September 09, 2013

Sue Kirkman Zake joins Kent State faculty

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 Susan Kirkman Zake Susan Kirkman Zake, former managing editor for multimedia and special projects at the Beacon Journal, has been na...
Friday, September 06, 2013

Dunphy report: No new cancer cells

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Former BJ reporter John Dunphy celebrated his birthday Aug. 30 and is playing golf – 8 over for 12 holes at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club -- whi...
Thursday, September 05, 2013

U.S. attacks Syria, hackers attack America?

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If the United States attacks Syria then the Syrian Electronic Army, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, may launch another hac...

Rockies, easy; backyard, not so much

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Ann Sheldon Mezger hiking Glacier National Park, which is safer than her backyard Apparently an Ohio backyard is more dangerous than t...
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

BJ publisher leaving

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 Andrea Mathewson Akron Beacon Journal Publisher Andrea Mathewson, 54, an Akron native and Springfield High School graduate w...
Monday, September 02, 2013

Connie Bloom first at Peninsula Fabric Art Show

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Former BJ Features Department editor/pet columnist Connie Bloom won first place for non-functional work at the Peninsula Fabric Art S...

Jim Carney enjoys 64th birthday

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Beacon Journal reporter Jim Carney, far left, enjoys his 64 th birthday with friends. Jim is married to BJ reporter Katie Bya...
Sunday, September 01, 2013

Amish newspapers thrive in digital age

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Saturday's Wall Street Journal carried a front-page story on newspapers that cover news from the Amish and Mennonite communities, inclu...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Pet in memoriam

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BJ reporter Jim Carney and former BJ Features editor/pet columnist Connie Bloom, now one of Ohio’s fabric art (quilts) gurus, both suffered...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Hackers attack New York Times

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A group that calls itself the Syrian Electronic Army today went after The New York Times, whose website had widespread outages as the ap...

He or she? Regardless of equipment?

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Today’s news organizations have a problem that few of us encountered in our journalism careers: He or she pronouns for transgender peopl...