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Former and Soon-to-Be Former Print Journalists

Entries from August 2008

Irony in Cartoon

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s irony for you:

Best, while listening to:
The Times They Are A-Changin’

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Tags: Industry News

Pension Packets on the Way

August 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Was told that pension packets to those who took “early” or regular retirement were mailed from The Post this week.
Watch your mailboxes!

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Tags: The Palm Beach Post

One Big SoFla Paper

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Looks like soon there will be one Mother paper in S.Fla. and all the papers that “were” will be bureaus to it. A lot of freelancing going on.
The news that triggers that theory was released this week: the “sharing” of editorial content among the major dailies.
Here’s the gist of the announcement to the troops from [...]

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Tags: Sun-Sentinel · The Miami Herald · The Palm Beach Post

Freelancing now? Incorporate yourself

August 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Are you going to freelance now? Good advice: Create your own business and incorporate it. It can be a one-person deal or if you decide you want to hire your buddies, you can make it a traditionally structured company with officers and partners.
We’re trying to get a tax attorney or some other expert to do [...]

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Tags: Advice · Legal things

Long-time Post Food Editor Cleans Out Her Office

August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

The Post no longer has to distract the fire marshall when he makes his annual inspection and starts down the hallway containing Food Editor (oops, FORMER food editor) Jan Norris’s office.
After sticking around long after all the other VSPs left on August 12 to get down to somewhere around 1997’s clips (and a package of [...]

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Tags: The Palm Beach Post