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Chicago Tribune looking for agate editors

Discussion in 'Journalism Jobs' started by Kellams, Aug 25, 2011.

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  1. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    You can make decent money on the agate desk. At a major-metro where I worked, the clerks ran a fairly significant bookmaking racket. Then the bosses caught wind of it (using all their interoffice messages as proof), and that was the end of those agate clerks.
     
    playthrough, Aug 31, 2011
    #73
  2. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    My jaw is on the floor based on some of the people who have sent me PMs on Kellams. It's always funny when you find out some of the big names are lurking here...

    Funny stuff...
     
    Mizzougrad96, Aug 31, 2011
    #74
  3. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Still with the name-dropping, eh? ;)
     
    Ace, Aug 31, 2011
    #75
  4. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    It is what it is... :D
     
    Mizzougrad96, Aug 31, 2011
    #76
  5. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Why hire human beings? Let Roombas write MLB gamers, too.
     
    wicked, Aug 31, 2011
    #77
  6. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    What color is the 'dead serious' font?
     
    Simon_Cowbell, Sep 1, 2011
    #78
  7. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    It takes a unique talent to do Tribune agate.

    You have to take a 1-0 no-hitter and a 16-15, 19-inning slugfest and magically make them . . . the same size. Because squaring off agate by putting the long box on top of the short one is too complicated and too journalistically correct.
     
    BTExpress, Sep 1, 2011
    #79
  8. Fran Curci

    Fran Curci Well-Known Member

    I see that the Tribune gave up the idea of having both a tab (for newsstand) and the traditional broadsheet. I guess they realized that designing the paper twice didn't make much sense considering that most of the Tribune papers are no longer edited at all.
     
    Fran Curci, Sep 1, 2011
    #80
  9. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    One has nothing to do with the other, Fran. Page designers love to hear that, even if you're making a tongue-in-cheek funny.
     
    jr/shotglass, Sep 1, 2011
    #81
  10. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Dude, give the man a break. He's a hustler, but he's sincere.
     
    jr/shotglass, Sep 1, 2011
    #82
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