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jI By LISA CARNAHAN ' ,_._ ﬂ“ “"‘” "’“’”'"”" ”m” ’ ' ’ ' ” ’ i
KPA News Bureau . '3 «g r ' ' y f .~ 1
.i' (Editor's note: So many people 1,: w ' ' 3; ‘ 1‘ . ; i
have left neu'spapers lately that it 's , 3f“ "p . a .» _ i
" caused KPA members to u'onder....Is . ‘ o 0 i :1. , " . Ir ' V 'y ‘3 i
the trend increasing or is it just the 1 " " "" a . '1 , 1 .' . ' p ,1...“ . . ,3? g” is“ i
natural transition ofjournalists, to , é ‘ V? U 1 .-, ‘ 3'; - .1 it. ‘3 10;; 1
leave the working press to become i ' ‘ v ’ ‘l " , — '- i
:‘_ public relations specialists! One i 5% i
r thing holds true for all those depart- i I I . . . ‘ ‘ ‘
. ed. however. Newspapers are still in l Lawson summers ElklnS WIIIIS Helm Armsuong i
their blood.) i_________________.___-.__._,__ﬁ#_._w__.".1-.._ ""“m‘H—‘WT ' _ _‘ ' ' ' ' ' " ‘ " ' ’ l
f L. . _ .. Press interv1ewed Six who have to manage work and my homelife... of 1:) years.
j; It 5" more than JUSt more recently left and asked them about and I decided I wanted a job with "For 14 years of our marriage,
, money.h Tﬁe ”$30: goal among their career change. fairly regular hours," said Lawson, she pulled up stakes and followed
5., Lops-:1: to av; 2 iinnrﬁwstpager Gil Lawson "Everybody knows the hours me around... from ()ldham County
.‘ mifiiiczstionzupdsitgign: is :nbecttrelr Lawson, after 10 years at The involved with newspapers. It wasn't to Somerset and then to Frankfort."
schedule. It's true, more money was Courier-Journal, decided the sched- that I was being abused or mistreat- he explained. "Each'time, She Mt a
often cited, but never as the number 1119 was too irregular for parent- ed at_ the Courier, I wasn't. BUt it good Job‘ never be'F‘g able to get
one reason people leﬁ newspapers hood. The father Of three children, was“ t pOSS‘ble for me at tlmes ‘0 tenure In her own 10b because 0f
“ Since the mid 905, a number of Lawson is now a communications PiCk up the kids. or take care of mine. SO those are really the two
, journalists have left the newspaper officer for the Cabinet for Health them when it was needed." reasons... With the overriding one
: industry and joined the ranks of Services. The other factor for Lawson was being regular hOUI‘S-'
- state government. The Kentucky "I found it increasingly difﬁcult a fairness consideration for his wife See STATE. page 5
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.. " .7 CHARLES L. OVERBY 'Lee Baker, sports editor of the h h h 1 “y
. Freedom Forum News defunct Jackson (Miss) Daily 1g SC 00 n6 Spapers
There’s a lot of talk these News and sports writer of the H' h ‘ h l , b . y d' 1d
days about newsroom folks leav- surviving Clarion-Ledger, retired 1g be 00 newspapers seem to an, . “MUM . en dnger.‘
- ing the business and others want- after 50 years. He gave me my serve as the cornerstone of newspa- spec1es~espemally in schools With
- in to leave first job per recruitment. After all, surveys high numbers of minority students.
1 g This is not new but it seems So th are people leaving the show that 65 percent of journalists In hopes of saving high school
3, to be getting worse, That’s why I news business" The top pre- began their careers out ofa passmn newspapers, the Newspaper
~ was struck by news last month dictable reason .which has been that developed while working on Association of America iNAAi. in a
3 . . ’ . . , their school newspaper. joint effort with Junior
'3'? }nvol;1ng()twodofdmyonewspagelr £2233: :(gngznoir22235'hpag' it: Unfortunately, the ominous fact is Achievement (JAL is offering NAA‘s
, « £35}? vforkdIdeatlfheir ::w;:;;;ré probably is not the moit .dec'ilsixie that most high school neWSpapers Advance Journalism: Running a
‘ for 50 years or more. In the end, factor. See GRANTS’ page 7
.1 their longevity in the business Indiana University journal-
_ L, was as notable as their contribu- ism professors Cleveland Wilhoit I NS' D E
J! tions. and David Weaver have been
The friends: studying journalists for two . .
0Edgar Allen Poe, Washington decades and agree that the exo- Pewhpapasmthe Loyalty’shouldbe Wm
correspondent for The Times dus involves more than pay. mpg.2 ad reps goal...pg.4 mmm
:; Picayune in New Orleans, and Wilhoit cites journalists‘ . . _
1‘ covered every president since uncertainties about the future WWW 3 mac“! 231V”? ImLebatespose 11
.17 Harry Truman. He died at 92. See TURNOVER, page 7 ”I.“ gundnenupg. es ecu y "'pg‘ I '5 tho...”
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