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...mourners-especially among the 130 editorial staffers faced with the necessity of finding new jobs. Last week a sense of unreality hung over the once-busy city room, which had been turned into a sort of employment agency to help ex-staffers get jobs. On one side of the newsroom a bulletin board listed some 200 job offers in Cleveland industry, but few newspaper openings. Out-of-town papers, e.g., the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, sent personnel representatives to interview ex-News reporters, many of whom discovered that they were considered too old to pick up good newspaper jobs. Said...
...favorite newsmen, this year sent a modest little Christmas card with the message: "We have made a gift in your honor to the American Cancer Society." Before sending anything to Washington reporters, General Electric phoned first to see if it was okay. At the New York Herald Tribune, the newsroom receptionist, who logs all incoming Christmas gifts, reported volume was down...
...Tired of the everyday grind? Want to live a life of romance and adventure? We offer you Escape!" With these words, candidates were welcomed into the CRIMSON Newsroom for the opening meeting of the Crime's first competition of the year. Escape was the keynote, Crimeds told of escape from angry deans, the dull academic routine, and even from Harvard itself. Beer cans hissed and the AP ticker tapped out "pockatapockatapockata" while candidates chortled in festive glee...
DEADLINES : "We are prisoners of the newsroom clock. It is crowding us farther off the narrow edge of journalism to which we cling and into the pit of entertainment, circulation gimmicks and advertising reader notices...
...continual hum of the CRIMSON newsroom is in no small way produced by the candidates for the news board. Neither drones nor "heelers," this group is usually at work turning out stories for the front page and the sports page or writing headlines that...