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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:24 pm 
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Position Description: The Wall Street Journal is seeking a skilled
copy editor with strong news judgment to join the desk responsible for all three global print editions of The Wall Street Journal.
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I think we should all get it over with and apply for jobs to work with Rupert. For all his sins, it would have to be more fun than working for Gannett. At least you'd feel some kinship with the guys in the Criminal Courts Building in "The Front Page."


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tommangan wrote:
... it would have to be more fun than working for Gannett."


Speaking of Gannett, how's that Information Center thing working out?


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I have never worked for a Murdoch-owned newspaper, but I know plenty of people who have. It's no picnic, but apparently not as bad as working for a Conrad Black-owned newspaper. But, then, what could be?


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Numero uno, ever heard of Singleton? Or as we always called him, the Pillsbury Do'h boy?


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I am familiar with Singleton by reputation only, so I can't say anything about his operation with authority.


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I work at a Singleton-owned paper. Let's just say the name "Lean Dean" is well-earned. "Meddlesome Dean" might also be appropriate. He has personally intervened on several occasions to change our body type. He's altered the type leading and even the font. Apparently regular old Times wasn't good enough for him.


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The thing people miss in all the Murdoch sackcloth-and-ashes talk (much as they do with George Steinbrenner) is this: The guy's in his late seventies. He could die any day now. Who's to say that whoever takes over for him will be of the exact same mindset?


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Wabberjocky wrote:
The thing people miss in all the Murdoch sackcloth-and-ashes talk (much as they do with George Steinbrenner) is this: The guy's in his late seventies. He could die any day now. Who's to say that whoever takes over for him will be of the exact same mindset?


Two successive publishers of the Daily Oklahoman lived to around 100, somewhat to the dismay (I was told) of employees hoping the next generation would be better.


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Folks here who have worked for Murdoch papers say the paper rather than the owner is the determining factor of happiness. How did you find them? I asked one. "Walked down the street and turned left, '' quoth he.


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One of the most relaxed places I ever worked was Murdoch-owned, here in London - it made absolutely masses of money through job advertising (180 pages of classifieds a week), and Rupe simply left it alone to bring in the cash. Hours were good, pay was fair, fellow workers and bosses were generally a happy, contented bunch. Then Murdoch sold the title to venture capitalists, to pay for his new printing presses in the UK, and the layoffs began - though to be fair, redundancy terms were amazingly generous, especially as many people had 30 or even 40 years' service (nobody ever left, it was such a good place to work). I know of one woman in her mid-50s who received £250,000 - that's half a million bucks at today's exchange rate - and quite a few others received six-figure UK pound sums. The most recent news is that the venture capitalists have sold on, as they do - and those staffers who stayed on after the redundancies, and were subsequently awarded share options, have all picked up £9,000 each from the sale ...

Biographical note - I once nearly ran over Rupert Murdoch, in the Cromwell Road, just a short distance from Harrods. The traffic had stopped, and as I sat in my car, Mr M walked out into the road in front of me as he crossed to the other side. How different history might have been if I had released the handbrake and stamped on the accelerator ...


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Ah, and would that you had.

Not that working for a Murdoch paper is a bad thing, in and of itself. I've worked for Murdoch and Gannett, and once you get over the "check your ethics at the door" reality of a Murdoch tab, it's really a much better ride there than at the "let's see how much blood we can wring from this dessicated stone" chain.

Some of the best times of my life were at a Murdoch tab. It taught me more about news judgment and competition than anywhere else.

He wasn't interfering much at the time; was off on some other continent. But I hear that's really a timing thing; it could've been much more hands-on.


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Did anyone else see where that copy editor, Walker I think his name was, announced he was quitting rather than "answer to Murdoch." I bet that has really rocked the very foundation of The Wall Street Journal.


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