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J Kaufman	Post subject: Job market [funny-papers division] Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:08 am
Joined: Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:47 pm Posts: 4655 Location: New York City	Since our maximum leader's in the UAE, Trudeau must mean another hot copy editor.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:18 am
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	I don't know quite how to take that. Trudeau apparently doesn't understand, incidentally, that if there is a "hot little copy editor" at the Post -- and I suppose there is -- she would have no interest in a 33-year veteran buyout candidate.
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Wayne Countryman	Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:46 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1775 Location: Baltimore	Ah, but would the 33-year veteran buyout candidate understand that? Will a heart be broken? Will the buyout money go for a little red sports car? Will the hottie challenge Rick's last lead? Or will the pixel-packin' pair inspire monthly salacious blurbs in Washingtonian magazine? Tune in tomorrow for ...
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lfelaco	Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:50 pm
Joined: Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:48 am Posts: 523 Location: Charlestown, RI	Phillip Blanchard wrote: Trudeau apparently doesn't understand, incidentally, that if there is a "hot little copy editor" at the Post -- and I suppose there is -- she would have no interest in a 33-year veteran buyout candidate. Were the hot little copy editors kept on when the grizzled 33-year veterans were let go, one wonders?
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Jonathan Kleinow	Post subject: Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:46 pm
Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:03 pm Posts: 86 Location: Madison, Wis.	lfelaco wrote: Phillip Blanchard wrote: Trudeau apparently doesn't understand, incidentally, that if there is a "hot little copy editor" at the Post -- and I suppose there is -- she would have no interest in a 33-year veteran buyout candidate. Were the hot little copy editors kept on when the grizzled 33-year veterans were let go, one wonders? I don't know how the Post did it, but The Star, in its last round of layoffs, let go the youngest, newest member of the news copy desk. As well as yours truly, the youngest person in the art department. And dozens more.
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Editer	Post subject: Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:26 am
Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:33 pm Posts: 1225 Location: Texas	Jonathan Kleinow wrote: lfelaco wrote: Phillip Blanchard wrote: Trudeau apparently doesn't understand, incidentally, that if there is a "hot little copy editor" at the Post -- and I suppose there is -- she would have no interest in a 33-year veteran buyout candidate. Were the hot little copy editors kept on when the grizzled 33-year veterans were let go, one wonders? I don't know how the Post did it, but The Star, in its last round of layoffs, let go the youngest, newest member of the news copy desk. As well as yours truly, the youngest person in the art department. And dozens more. My contact at the Fort Worth paper reports that the least senior on their copy desk were slated for layoffs as well (but enough people took buyouts that it didn't come to that). So it was probably a McClatchy thing, FWIW.
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