When Outsourcing is Just Plain StupidBrilliantAn astute and well-written response!RE: When Outsourcing is Just Plain StupidHaving been a magazine editor/publisher, I totally and absolutely agree 100% with CC Holland.RACIST!You are just being racist and xenophobic. I know you have the right to express your self, but at the end of...
Barbara Bohn, 41, has joined Crain's Chicago Business as chief copy editor. A 1988 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ms. Bohn has worked at the Daily Herald. During a previous stint at Crain Communications Inc., she was a Barbara Bohn,...
ATLANTIC FISH CO., BOSTON "Dining at an upscale restaurant isn't an everyday occurrence for me, so when I do, I usually order something indulgent. But when I visited the Atlantic Fish Co. in Boston (761 Boylston St.; atlanticfishco.com) for an early dinner, I ordered a simple toasted goat...
Newspaper also appoints editor / digital media, associate editor CHICAGO, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicago Tribune editor Gerould W. Kern announced today that Jane Hirt, editor of the newspaper's RedEye edition, has been named managing editor of the Tribune. "Jane has the experience and credentials...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/317a50/futures_options) has announced the addition of the "Futures & Options World: The Global Derivatives Magazine" subscription to their offering. "Global derivatives markets are growing increasingly complex and sophisticated making it more important than ever to keep informed about trends and developments," Ben...
The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat," but we now know the name of Bob Woodward's fourth investigative work on the Bush administration, just three weeks before the book's release. "The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008" will be published Sept....
PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Next Inning Technology Research (http://www.nextinning.com/), a subscription service focused on semiconductor and technology stocks, announced it has updated outlooks for Applied Materials , Hewlett-Packard , JDS Uniphase and Scopus Video Networks . Next Inning editor Paul McWilliams advised his readers...
MY LIFE IN MEDIA Paul Brannigan, 37, is the editor of Kerrang!, the weekly magazine for metalheads of every persuasion. He will host the title's annual awards ceremony on Thursday and likes to boast that Kerrang! sells more copies each week than its rival NME. Originally...
Vogue Italia magazine knows Black is not only beautiful but profitable. The July issue of the magazine was its first ever "Black" issue featuring only Black models and articles pertaining to Black-related subjects, including one on EBONY magazine. The original run sold out in the United...
CHICAGO AP -- The Chicago Tribune carried out its plan to trim 14 percent of newsroom staff on Friday as the Tribune Co.'s flagship paper moves to save $8.8 million in annual costs. The biggest Chicago daily, with average circulation of 541,663, laid off 80 newsroom personnel,...
Over 30 years ago when my husband, son and I moved to Martinez, it was a beautiful, small, friendly town. Our son went to the local schools, graduated from Alhambra High School. We felt safe. Now what is happening to Martinez? It seems the parole board...
Hat dance In the late 1980s, I crossed swords with Pleasant Hill Code Title 7. In the process of examining it, I found that the penalties are the same for a business doing millions in trade and every resident who is already in or approaching the Social...
* Revenues for all operations grew by 7.6% compared to the second quarter of 2007 * Rodale print advertising revenues were up 8.3% compared to an industry-wide decline of 4.9% * Revenues from all online activities increased by 27.1% over the second quarter of 2007, and...
If all you latent copy editors will gather 'round, the quiz will begin. The first question deals with punctuation in possessive constructions. Don't go away! These sentences plop upon your desk: From The New York Times: "When Mr. Stewart tried to joke about Mr. Obama changing his...
On the wall of my six-year-old son's room is a copy of an 'IoS' front page which shows him perched on a set of weighing scales. The picture was taken a couple of years ago to accompany a story about childhood obesity, although my son is not overweight, and he's...
One of the prerogatives of being a freelance gun'riter is I'm not tied into one area of interest. With some gun magazines whose writers are contracted, their editors actually resist letting them step away from a pre-set "persona." GUNS Magazine just lets me follow my nose or...
Start your own freelance writing business and more; copywriter, proofreader, copy editor, journalist. Sheldon, George. Entrepreneur Press 2008 145 pages $17.95 Paperback HF5825 Debunking the myth that freelance writers are like starving artists, Sheldon...
A handy item to distribute to local camera stores, photo labs, libraries, schools, company bulletin boards, etc., is a brochure. As the cost of color copying is fairly reasonable, a club can put together a good looking brochure for a small investment. MS Publisher is a good program for putting...
PODER Magazine, a leading publication for thebusiness elite, acquires Hispanic Enterprise magazine and launches localeditions in Venezuela, Argentina and Peru, in addition to its existingpublications in Miami, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. With a combined circulation of almost 350,000 copies and eight localeditions, PODER becomes the strongest regional magazine to reach...
Readers will notice changes in the Deseret News in the next few weeks as the newspaper attempts to make up shortfalls due to declining advertising revenue. The paper will no longer print a separate edition for Utah Valley, but will fold coverage into...