Posts filed under 'Former RRS staffers'
June 16th, 2009
What?
Expect no less of a title from former Register Star news editor Joyce Lamb, who is a suspense-romance novelist and copy editor at USA TODAY.
She is writing “Sex, Semicolons and Split Infinitives” on her humorous serialized fiction blog, “Save the Copy Editor, Save the World.” The point? You get hooked on the mystery but receive “word nerd” advice — aka, grammar tips — along the way.
People who post comments on the blog have the chance to win a signed copy of one of her books. I’ve read “Relative Strangers” and “Caught in the Act” (a newspaper thriller). I think I’ve read “Found Wanting,” too. It’s been a while.
Lamb, a 1983 Jefferson grad, left Rockford in the late 1990s. Many also remember her father, Joe, a legendary “old school” RRS editor who passed away in 2003.
You can follow Lamb on Twitter, too!
P.S. Don’t forget our own word guy, Barry Wood, with his Wood on Words blog.
April 29th, 2009
Last year, the Register Star won GateHouse Media’s Newspaper of the Year Award in the company’s 2007 Best Of competition.
This year, the 2008 award went to the Canton (Ohio) Repository, which is led by former RRS managing editor Jeff Gauger, who worked here from 2005 to 2007. Congrats to him. Drop him a line if you remember him.
(This year, the Register Star was a finalist.)
April 11th, 2009
Todd Franko, who worked at the Register Star as the Local&State editor a few years ago, has gotten national attention for his “letter to Oprah.”
He’s now the editor of a newspaper in Ohio and upset about allowing Suze Orman to say on O’s show that people should cancel their newspaper subscriptions to save a few bucks. Below is an excerpt.
Let me remind you of your audience: They do what you say.
I know. I have a wife, a mother and at least one sister-in-law who all follow your every move. My mom has a bookshelf in her house that should be labeled ”Oprah’s Bookshelf.” You wave it; she reads it.
After the Dow and Wal-Mart, you are the No. 3 economic force in America.
You so influence the lives of these women that I’ve been dying for an episode entitled “Mrs. Franko, it’s time for you to go back into the workforce” because my chats with my wife are certainly not working.
What will you do if your fans go out today and cancel their newspaper?
Here’s an irony: Had this show aired in October, and your audience listened to you, you might not have had a Chicago Sun-Times in November to wave on TV to proclaim “the best paper in the world.”
April 17th, 2008
for those of you who remember andre smith, our former high school sports writer who liked to do things like wrestle and shoot photos in his spare time:
he had the opportunity yeseterday to photograph the pope for the wilmington, del., newspaper. he told me he shot video, too. it’s in today’s 1 p.m. newscast. “it was something else!” he said.
