REPORTER/STAFF WRITER

Company: The Weekly Almanac

Description: REPORTER/STAFF WRITER (HONESDALE, PA)

The Weekly Almanac, a growing community newspaper in Wayne County, seeks a full-time talented reporter. Beat includes hard news, government meetings, enterprise and features. The ideal candidate will possess a
bachelor's degree and have 1+ years of writing experience, familiarity with AP style, computer literacy, typing proficiency and photography skills. Must be detail- and deadline-oriented, well organized and adept at multi-tasking.

Must have valid driver's license and car. Must be flexible with schedule.

For consideration, please send resume w/ writing samples to: The Weekly Almanac, 3202 Lake Ariel Hwy., Honesdale, PA 18431, attn: Mary Baldwin. Fax: 570-253-8937, e-mail: mbaldwin@weeklyalmanac.com. EOE.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate will possess a bachelor's degree and have 1+ years of writing experience, familiarity with AP style, computer literacy, typing proficiency and photography skills. Must be detail- and deadline-oriented, well organized and adept at multi-tasking. Must have valid driver's license and car. Must be flexible with schedule.

I returned early from Pennsylvania to interview for an internship at the news site, Salon. Things went well, and I should be starting in a week or so.

The internship will focus on video shooting and editing in New York, as well as assisting this blogger.

OpEd News, one of the higher traffic media sites on the Internet, is looking for qualified interns who have backgrounds in journalism or are currently majoring in journalism or related areas in colleges (including political science, history, sociology, and anthropology). Interns will be able to work in areas of their personal interest (e.g., politics, music, art, the environment, etc.) since the site deals with a diversity of topics.

Must be able to write very short interactive fiction consisting of a cast of 8 characters 4 female / 4 male. Short Script 6-12 pages. Speak to me directly regarding the many details I have left out. You will be working with a 3 person team backed by a solid, dependable scripter: Alondria LeFay.

The UK’s Guardian newspaper has proclaimed a Games Week for their paper. The Guardian has withheld nothing from this celebration: they flooded their website with new articles from the greats in VG journalism and VG creators.  It’s a must read.  

Richard Bartle, writer and game creator, sums up the direction of video games in his article:

“I'm talking to you, you self-righteous politicians and newspaper columnists, you relics who beat on computer games: you've already lost. Enjoy your carping while you can, because tomorrow you're gone.”

Bartle cites that nearly half of the UK population have grown up playing video games, and as the years pass the percentage will keep growing in favor of gamers and I bet the same goes for the USA.  The next generation of journalists and politicians will all have grown up with video games as a massively influential media.

Each article on the site is another look into the depths of video game journalism.  Here are just a few of the highlight articles: Why Gaming will Survive an Economic Meltdown, Advertising in Video Games, and How the Sims put nongamers in the Top Slot.  What a great acknowledgment of video games as cultural relevant media.  We'll see games popping up in news broadcasts more and more frequently. 

For the most part The Guardian is only publishing Games Week articles online, but who cares, that’s where the gamers are...for now.

Lauren Miller, 19, agrees. She says the pressure of her senior year in high school was intense, with her advanced-placement classes. Yet, equally intense was the temptation to succumb to "senioritis" and slack off, because she was burned out and preoccupied with college.

In her math class -- not the Greensburg resident's forte -- the disease did kick in.

"I didn't want to be there," says Miller. She is now a freshman at Seton Hill University, majoring in Spanish. "I really had to just force myself to go to math class.

"A lot of people in my high school were just so eager to get out of (school)," she says.

Don't slack off, even though it's tempting, Miller advises high-school seniors.

"Even though it's their last semester, those grades are going to count and they're going to show up on your transcripts," she says. "If you start slacking off the last semester of high school, you're not going to be prepared for high school."

With control of the chocolate market concentrated in the hands of so few companies, and the technical difficulties of entering the market and merchandising new products, "the chocolate candy product market was ripe for collusion," Giant Eagle claims.

The supermarket chain contends the three suppliers increased average prices 16 percent from December 2004 to March 2005, even though there was no evidence of increases in raw material prices.

Hershey and Nestle raised their candy prices by an average of 11.7 percent this year, Giant Eagle said.

The suit cites a 2007 investigation by the Canadian Competition Bureau, which claimed Nestle, Hershey and Mars conspired to fix prices in Canada. Canadian authorities said an informant described meetings among top food executives that led to the price fixing.

Our timeline looks at the history of new media and online journalism from 1969 to 2008.

We are presenting it in two parts, with parallel sections on "Technology/Services/Social" and "The Media."

David Shedden, Library Director of the Poynter Institute's Eugene Patterson Library, began compiling this timeline and bibliography in 1995.

We hope the timeline serves as a useful reference tool for journalists, students, and researchers.

We also hope it helps preserve the history of new media and online journalism, a history that isn't very new after all.

Begin the timeline: 1969

Pullen says her teaching style for this show involved having the students consider the Shakespeare comedy as if it were an animated feature. "We chose to take off on the physical antics, almost like a cartoon. It's a great approach for this production," she says.