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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: I Can't Work Under Such Conditions Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:26 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	The Fresno Bee has a part-time position on its features desk for a rimeditor to edit copy; write headlines and photo captions; and proof pages. ... Shifts are generally Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to noon. If you meet these qualifications and thrive under deadline pressure, send your résumé and samples of your editing work to .... (ACES Jobs) *** If you "thrive under deadline pressure," why would you want to work five mornings a week on a features desk? ***
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egable	Post subject: Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:29 pm
Joined: Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:24 am Posts: 310	Maybe all the features reporters are really horrible procrastinators?
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vtuss	Post subject: Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:36 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 16, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 476 Location: Twin Cities	Maybe it's a preprint or an early run with an 11:30 a.m. or a noon deadline? But folks likely to see the ad would know that the newspaper should know better.
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Copy Editer	Post subject: Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 7:28 pm
Joined: Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:31 pm Posts: 50 Location: USA	I think the features sections where I work go to the press at noon.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:00 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	Copy Editer wrote: I think the features sections where I work go to the press at noon. Unless you're covering a Lindsay Lohan luncheon "live," there's no reason for "deadline pressure" for a features section. If the "deadline" is noon, finish the night before.
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EMorse	Post subject: Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:17 pm
Joined: Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:01 am Posts: 1025 Location: The Lexington Avenue Spaceship	Phillip Blanchard wrote: Copy Editer wrote: I think the features sections where I work go to the press at noon. Unless you're covering a Lindsay Lohan luncheon "live," there's no reason for "deadline pressure" for a features section. If the "deadline" is noon, finish the night before. You'd think it would be that simple. Every place I've worked, though, there were features writers who, like some writers in every section, considered the section closing deadline to be their filing deadline, and their editors refused to disabuse them of the notion.
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