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Heartodixie	Post subject: Reporter wanted. Pagination skills required. Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:44 am
Joined: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:15 am Posts: 1432 Location: Alabamer	Wonder what part of reporting requires Quark and InDesign? Top-notch reporter needed The ad does say that the town is located "between" three other cities. Can't beat that.
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egable	Post subject: Re: Reporter wanted. Pagination skills required. Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:27 pm
Joined: Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:24 am Posts: 310	Heartodixie wrote: Wonder what part of reporting requires Quark and InDesign? The part where you work at a small paper in a town of 15,000? I have trouble seeing anything wrong with this ad.
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Heartodixie	Post subject: Re: Reporter wanted. Pagination skills required. Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 2:19 pm
Joined: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:15 am Posts: 1432 Location: Alabamer	egable wrote: Heartodixie wrote: Wonder what part of reporting requires Quark and InDesign? The part where you work at a small paper in a town of 15,000? I have trouble seeing anything wrong with this ad. I guess "nightmare" is an overstatement. Just wondering where the pagination software comes in. I've done reporting at tiny tiny papers and never had to touch layout sofware. Even now, as a copyeditor filling in on the city desk, I don't have those programs on my computer. Also, it was striking to me that that's the only qualification the ad lists. Though I guess that's kind of common sense, since what reporters do is a given and knowing pagination software is not.
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Dapper Dan	Post subject: Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:04 pm
Joined: Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 273	I started as a reporter at a five-day-a-week PM paper where the entire news staff was me and the editor. I usually laid out two or three of the paper's pages; when the editor was sick or out of town, I laid out the whole thing. I suspect the Outlook's staff isn't a whole lot bigger. It makes sense that they'd want a reporter who can use layout software.
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Wabberjocky	Post subject: Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:24 pm
Joined: Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:47 pm Posts: 1734 Location: Washington	As opposed to a reporter who's, say, reporting? Jeez.
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paulwiggins	Post subject: Re: Reporter wanted. Pagination skills required. Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:40 pm
Joined: Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:01 am Posts: 3137 Location: Homebush NSW Australia	egable wrote: Heartodixie wrote: Wonder what part of reporting requires Quark and InDesign? The part where you work at a small paper in a town of 15,000? I have trouble seeing anything wrong with this ad. I had a two-year spell in such a town liaising with our printers. The staff of the local paper had to do all sorts of things and were among the happiest folk I've ever met in the industry.
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zythophile	Post subject: Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:23 pm
Joined: Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:14 am Posts: 70 Location: 6,500 miles right and down a lot	I worked on a weekly paper, part of a larger group, where for nine months I was the entire editorial staff: I wrote the stories, laid out the pages, and if there was a hole in the page I rang someone up to get another story to fill the hole - it was great ...
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