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J Kaufman
 Post subject: Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust!
PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:28 am 
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I've seen dreck in ads, but never "dreck" in an ad:
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Maybe you've noticed lately that business news is important. Perhaps you're thinking to yourself, "I know I don't know much about subprime loans, but apparently neither did the folks making them." Maybe you went into journalism to cover the stuff that really matters to people. You thought that would be politics -- but, really, it all comes down to money. If the last few weeks haven't proven that to you, we're not sure what could.

So here's a choice: go to a general interest newspaper and sit around covering planning & zoning commission meetings and the local second grade Cub Scouts outing, or work for us and cover the biggest stories around. We're looking for reporters who'd rather spend their time out digging up a good story than sitting around the office moping about the state of the industry. We're The Warren Group, publishers of Banker & Tradesman and The Commercial Record newspapers. With 135 years of newspapering behind us, the fun's just starting.

This isn't business review dreck, or journalism that panders. We cover the trail of money, the stories that make our economy soar or swoon. If you know how to dig behind the obvious, if you know your responsibility is to be smarter than your readers, if you know that great storytelling is rooted in both cleverness and deep understanding, then you may be the reporter we're looking for.


Plus, you get to work with "smart" editors!
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Can't finish reading this tome... I have to cover a Cub Scout meeting in 45 minutes.
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