Dear Conscience,Is it acceptable for me to do freelance work out of the office?Though opinions on this differ, its a genernally good thing when employees take on side work. Why? Because that allows them to gain extra experience, which makes them more valuable to the company in the long term.Of...
Innovative website serves as resource, support for companies and individuals in search of non-traditional work solutions CHICAGO -- Like so many Americans, Kyra Cavanaugh had the typical 9-to-5 job - complete with casual Fridays, Monday meetings and working lunches. Then her kids came along, and things got more...
Bob Wassom was at the top of his career when the advertising company he worked for merged with another. Five years later, his contract was not renewed. That was in 2006. Wassom's buyout kept him going about a year. Now the freelance writer, too young to retire...
Got the latest issue (May/June 2008) and wanted to compliment you on your new photographer, Mr. Pittman. I've always admired Mr. Nagata's work, and found Mr. Pittman's to be something new and subtly different. I can see the standard remains high at Handgunner, regardless of who is taking the pictures!...
We asked a sampling of LGBT people in Hong Kong: "What do you think about China's hosting the Olympics?" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Abigail Lee, 35 regional manager "It's a major milestone. China has been trying to open up for a while. At the...
A prequel to 'Treasure Island' will giveone author's answers to questions posed by Robert Louis Stevenson's classic The mysteries of Robert Louis Stevenson's greatest work have enthralled readers for more than a century. And yet, at the end of Treasure Island, many questions remain unanswered. How did...
Miles Kington, the humourist, broadcaster, musician and Independent columnist who died in January, once observed that "whenever I attend someone's memorial service, I am always struck by one notable absence: the late lamented himself". His own memorial took place at a packed St Martin-in-the-Fields yesterday, and his...
CINCINNATI -- CinciMedia, the global provider of interactive media design and development services, is pleased to announce the addition of a key hire to its growing staff, allowing it to expand its 3D services portfolio into visual effects for Television and Film. To support this capability CinciMedia has also made...
Home News IN BRIEF *A British journalist kidnapped by a militant group linked to the Taliban has been released after three months, his family said yesterday. Sean Langan, a freelance reporter from London, was working for Channel 4's Dispatches when he was seized on the border of...
When photographer Tara Harnett returned to the North Country after college, she didn't expect to build an exciting career there. But today she is photography studio manager for Garnet Hill, an apparel and home furnishings catalog company based in Franconia. "I do it all," Harnett said. "I line up...
As a popular freelance choreographer, Trey McIntyre has created works for companies like American Ballet Theatre, Stuttgart Ballet, and The Washington Ballet. In 2004 he founded the Trey McIntyre Project, a 10-member, summer-only touring company. Now four years later, the company is bunking down in Boise, ID, and will make...
Old radio jocks don't die, they just move to Mangawhai Heads. Industry veteran and former Hauraki morning pirate Mark Perry chucked in the high-profile, glamorous life of a breakfast show host a while back. He now kicks around on a six-acre bush block in Northland, does freelance...
STAFF In April, ACA hired former newspaper reporter and talk radio producer John Nemo as its full-time public relations director. He brings more than a decade of experience in print, online and broadcast media and a track record of highly creative and successful publicity campaigns to the...
Richard Engel, Chief Foreign Correspondent,NBC News, will converse with NPR's Mike Shuster on his new book "WarJournal: My Five Years in Iraq" on Tuesday, June 10, 2008, at Temple Emanuel as apart of TOWN HALL'S ongoing Writers Bloc series. Engel's latest work is a collection of observations...
MY MENTOR I was freelancing when I met Kevin Bakhurst in September last year. I was working as a sports presenter on Five and as a correspondent for PTV, an Asian channel, as well as running a production company when we met at a networking event for...
The way we live now When Jimmy Savile said that thing about "office gentlemen and office ladies" in the famous 1981 British Rail ad, everyone knew exactly what he meant. It was about going to the hive and getting a buzz. Back then, more people were going...
JUSTIN Bergeron realized at a young age that in order to be successful in the world of entertainment production, knowing many different aspects of the industry was important. "When I first started going to school, I knew that I didn't want to be a one-trick pony," said Bergeron,...
Goodbye Lucille By Segun Afolabi VINTAGE Pounds 7.99 (312pp) In his stylish short-story collection, A Life Elsewhere, Nigerian- born Segun Afolabi wrote memorably about life as a newly-arrived asylum seeker. In Goodbye Lucille, his debut novel, he returns to questions of identity and ethnicity - this time...
Painter and sculptor Alastair Michie was a talented painter and sculptor who took up art belatedly in the early 1960s. During the previous decade he had pursued a successful career as a freelance designer and illustrator. The change seemed inevitable for someone from an important Scottish art...
MOSUL, Iraq AFP — Gunmen dragged a woman freelance journalist from a taxi in Iraq's northern restive city of Mosul on Sunday and killed her in broad daylight, a local police officer told AFP. Tharwat Abdul-Wahab, 30, was on her way to work when a group of gunmen...
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