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Monday, September 24, 2007 2:36 PM

Quotables

Q.I am just starting my journalism career.  I'm in j-school and work at the local daily, and though I'm reporting stories, I'm kind of learning on the fly.  A problem I've run in to is that when I'm taking notes and trying to quote someone,
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Friday, August 31, 2007 7:30 PM

We have a destination! Sort of...

In my last post I asked people to share their opinions on the state of the industry and the direction journalism is headed. Here's what I learned:     From what everyone said it seems the future will be in video/Web news. The journalists
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:30 PM

Who's the publisher again?

As young journalists, much of our interaction with the top brass in our organizations are usually limited to head nods, hellos and water cooler talk. As a fairly new employee of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (one year in September), I've barely had interaction
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Friday, August 17, 2007 8:36 PM

Where do we go from here?

This is a tough time to be entering journalism. The changing industry means more opportunities to spearhead new projects and ideas, but it's also tough because we're faced with an often stagnant idea of what journalism really means. The definition of
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 5:58 AM

Getting it right

Q.So I was hoping I could run something by you and the Generation J crowd. Work's been pretty intense lately and I'm feeling the pressure. About six months ago I had a bad two week stint where I had a couple errors and corrections. I freaked out, I
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Monday, July 09, 2007 5:16 AM

Tell me why do I do this?!?

A topic from a regular reader:I'm an avid Gen J reader, and I recently had an interesting e-mailconversation with a former professor who was asking me about my careerand sort of where to go from my first job. I'm not on the hunt oranything, but I am nearing
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Friday, April 20, 2007 3:54 PM

40 hours

Q.Like many young reporters, I'm starting at a small daily.My newspaper has a policy of setting a limit of work hours at 40 hours a week for reporters who are not on salary, which includes me.I have aspirations to work at a large metro paper one day.I'm
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 4:13 PM

You got questions? We'll get answers!

Why don't we get this learning ball rolling? If you're like me - the training provided by your newsroom is just a starting point. Learning is not something your boss can do for you - you must go out and get it yourself. I'd like to start another
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