Word: trentonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Winans, whose brother Christopher, 33, is a Journal copy editor, apparently had at least one blemish on his record. At the Trentonian, a New Jersey tabloid on which he worked as a reporter for four years, former colleagues say that Winans once pirated details from other reporters' notes and used them to write a freelance article that he then sold to the New York Times. He was reprimanded by a Trentonian editor and did not repeat the practice...
Winans rose quickly after leaving the Trentonian in 1981 to become a $379-a-week copyreader at the Dow Jones News Service, a Journal affiliate. The following year he was promoted to the newspaper as a "Heard on the Street" writer. Although he received a written warning after making four factual errors, he improved enough to win a raise. Said Pearlstine: "In spite of the reprimand letter, I thought Foster was doing a fine job in most respects...
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