ElkRiverHarmonicas
1098 posts
Jun 05, 2012
5:24 AM
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I saw on the Where are you from thread that we had a former newspaper reporter here, I'm one too, wonder if there are others.
Did most of my time at the Parkersburg Sentinel, won two West Virginia Press Association awards... Now work part time for the Putnam Standard. I write the outdoors page, plus about three other stories a week.
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nacoran
5786 posts
Jun 05, 2012
3:02 PM
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I minored in journalism and worked for my college newspaper. I did an internship in public relations where I wrote press releases. I didn't do much with it after college though.
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eharp
1826 posts
Jun 05, 2012
4:46 PM
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i got a degree in journalism.
while finishing up i began working as an assistant editor for 3 small medical journals.
got my degree and found i had to start at $5 per hour in some small hick town.
with a wife and a kid, it just wasnt gonna happen.
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TheATL
38 posts
Jun 05, 2012
4:57 PM
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Not newspaper. Worked at Turner in Entertainment division but worked several CNN gigs.
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BronxHarp
69 posts
Jun 05, 2012
5:17 PM
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Until last September I was the editor, for 17 years, of a nonprofit community newspaper in the Bronx. I'm doing free-lance writing/research now but expect to be back in the full-time journalism game very soon. I will also be teaching an intro journalism course at Fordham U in the fall. Dave Thompson, who lives in PA, is also a local journalist. I met him last year at HCH2.
Jrodan
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BronxHarp
70 posts
Jun 05, 2012
5:18 PM
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Nice byline typo for a journalist, eh? My name is Jordan, not Jrodan :-)
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jbone
939 posts
Jun 05, 2012
8:13 PM
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my wife Jolene worked for newspapers in central Arkansas for around 20 years. she is now retired. to me over the 5 years she was working here in town for 2 different newspapers- sort of like a ping pong ball- it was amazing to see her in action with the local officials. she always reported very fairly and even when it was a story the officials didn't want out, they would tell their side because they knew the story would be unbiased in either direction. this got her scoops nobody else could get. very cool to watch!
the hours were relentless sometimes, she'd work on and off all day gathering news and then sit up all night hammering out stories for a deadline- and do the same thing next day. until she just fell out for 12+ hours.
Jolene is now collaborating on a mystery novel with 2 old friends from her school days in the 60's. she got hooked up with them after 30 or more years via facebook and they were thick as thieves instantly.
i actually tried my hand on a fluff piece for one of the locals some years ago, a story on what Christmas was like 60-70 years ago. i went to the local retirement home and just asked a couple of questions, and listened to four really cool ladies talk about how wild things were in the 20's and 30's here. took a lot of notes and knocked out a cool story.
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
1103 posts
Jun 05, 2012
8:44 PM
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Thats very interesting about Christmas, I used to roll down to the Jewish Temple every year at Hannakah and do a story. It was always so fun, because it was all so strange and cool to me, I'd eat about 20 latkes. I would talk to the old timers about Hanakah when they were kids, they'd say they'd get like one piece of penny candy or something... It wasn't until THEIR kids started seeing the Christmas presents the Christian kids got after WWII, that kids started really getting Hanakah presents. I used to do a lot of history stories at the daily, Christmas history, too. Before the 20th century, nobody in WV - or most of the south really - actually celebrated Christmas much because they thought it was too papish - and what few catholics there were were the only ones celebrating it. It really wasn't until World War II and after that people had enough money to buy kids presents. That something like what you found, Jbone?
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David
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"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato." - Lewis Grizzard
"Also, drinking homemade beer." - David Payne
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jbone
941 posts
Jun 06, 2012
5:10 AM
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well yes, to an extent. what i really recall was the parts of these ladies' stories about everyday life, more than just Christmas. things like raising and eating home grown foods, and doing without a lot of stuff unless it could be afforded from the sears or monkey ward catalog.
more on this later when i have time!
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
1107 posts
Jun 06, 2012
6:38 AM
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This is my favorite, I think, of those types of stories I did. The Roscoe Carper Sr. mentioned, btw, was my grandfather and Howard Carper my great uncle.
Surviving the Great Depression
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David
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"Also, drinking homemade beer." - David Payne
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