Life after journalism

Joe Williams · Jun 23, 2008

Screwball said:

As to PR deadlines:

A friend had gotten out of sportswriting and started a job as a PR guy at a hospital. He starts on a Tuesday, and his boss assigns him to do a 20-inch profile of a cardiologist. He talks to the cardiologist, a colleague and a couple patients, and he turns the story in by the end of the day.

"Oh," his boss said. "We were just hoping you could do this by Friday."
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Dork should have asked the deadline up front. Now he's ruined it for himself and potential fellow gold-brickers. Next thing you know, the PR boss will be counting column inches to measure his annual productivity.

ScribePharisee · Jun 24, 2008

Joe Williams said:

Sheri said:

Perhaps it's different in America, but we can't find good help in the newspaper business up here.

Of course, many of the available jobs are in smaller markets, but that's about the only type of outfit you can work for these days and still be permitted any freedom of the press.

Move to Canada. I need another reporter, post haste.
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Coming out of school, I wanted to work in Toronto or Vancouver in the worst way. But I kept hearing that I had to have a job if I wanted to move to Canada, and I had to live in Canada if I was going to get hired by a newspaper there. Had no chance of being classified as an indispensable talent or whatever it was that allowed a Canadian firm to reach to the States to hire a non-resident, where you packed unique skills, allegedly.

Besides, I'd have gotten fired for writing about centers instead of centres.
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Yeah, but Sheri seems like a nice boss to have.

BrianGriffin · Jun 24, 2008

Joe Williams said:

Screwball said:

As to PR deadlines:

A friend had gotten out of sportswriting and started a job as a PR guy at a hospital. He starts on a Tuesday, and his boss assigns him to do a 20-inch profile of a cardiologist. He talks to the cardiologist, a colleague and a couple patients, and he turns the story in by the end of the day.

"Oh," his boss said. "We were just hoping you could do this by Friday."
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Dork should have asked the deadline up front. Now he's ruined it for himself and potential fellow gold-brickers. Next thing you know, the PR boss will be counting column inches to measure his annual productivity.
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Dr. Zell does the counting. And he wants to announce that oncology and child delivery will be merging with all non-essential employees being offered a buyout. Try not to give the babies chemo or stick the cancer patients in incubators though...

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