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kaffy_r ([personal profile] kaffy_r) wrote2010-09-18 10:49 pm
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Dept. of hangin' with the boys

Old Reporters Never Die. They Always Smell That Way.

     There's something tremendously satisfying about spending a night with old reporting buddies, shooting the shit and arguing about movies. My workplace has changed so much that getting time to do this is at a premium. Ah, we have jut decided that we can't agree on any movie whatsoever; oh lord, this means we'll have to talk ... Conversation - threat, or menace?
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[personal profile] kaffy_r 2010-09-19 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
When I started, back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, I worked for a couple of small dailies in eastern Canada. I moved to the US and after a few short jobs out of the business, I got a position with a chain of suburban weekly community newspapers. That was in 1983; I've been with that company since then, surviving multiple ownership changes, several rounds of layoffs and numerous beat changes. All my beats have focused, for the most part, on individual communities, although I have done, and do, a lot of education writing. Those stories often overlapped communities, simply because school districts in Illinois often overlap communities.

I write hard news, cop shop, features of all kind, education, municipal, zoning and business related - everything that has to do with the daily life of a community. It's Fourth Estate Grassroots Democracy stuff at its most basic. I love it.

I don't, however, make money at it.

[identity profile] ladymercury-10.livejournal.com 2010-09-20 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Cool! Do you think we could chat about newswriting some time?
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[personal profile] kaffy_r 2010-09-20 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Of course; it would be my pleasure.

[identity profile] ladymercury-10.livejournal.com 2010-09-20 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yay! I shall start getting my questions in order, then. I think I remember you prefer gmail chat?
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[personal profile] kaffy_r 2010-09-20 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, that's what I usually use.
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[identity profile] ladymercury-10.livejournal.com 2010-09-20 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds good. I found your gmail on your user page, so I'll send you an email so you have mine. And then someday when we're both online, I'll drop you a line!

Thanks so much!
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[personal profile] kaffy_r 2010-09-20 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds good to me!

[identity profile] ladymercury-10.livejournal.com 2010-09-20 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Could you send me like a blank email back so you show up in my chat list?
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