After revolutionizing the TV listings biz -- the Star-Telegram was one of the first major metro dailies to add color to its grids and to figure out how to zone by making a simple black-plate change -- TV book/Live editor Jim Davis is retiring from the paper. In the '90s, under his leadership, the TV section won a number of national awards, including being named best in the country. At the Star-T he has been a copy editor, Encore editor and arts editor, and he was associate managing editor/features at The Philadelphia Inquirer. ...
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The Tarrant Regional Water District seeks a corporate communications manager. Must have a degree in journalism, PR or related field, at least five years experience and proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Preferred credentials include at least three years as a supervisor; biology, environmental or water management experience; and skills in design, production and video. Benefits and competitive salary commensurate with experience. Send résumé and two writing samples to TRWD consultant Julie Wilson at j.wilson@reasonsinc.com. ...
Oprah Winfrey's magazine, O, seeks fall interns -- recent college grads or students needing credit hours -- in its Fashion and Style departments, to start immediately. Prior internship preferred, but not required. Send résumé with a cover letter to associate editor Cindy M. del Rosario, 1700 Broadway, 38th floor, New York, or call (212) 903-5149. ... Verizon has openings in engineering, computer science, information technology, business, finance or marketing for 2004 graduates of historically black schools. Send résumé to: melissa.w.langham@verizon.com.
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NEW MEMBERS
PRSA ... Lycrecia S. Atkins, Tarleton State University ... Rachael Gross, Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital ... Joan Hunter, TXU ... Sherry Elizabeth McKenzie, Stockyards Station ... Darren Meyer, Flowserve Corp. ... Ellen Elizabeth Smith, Girl Scouts Circle T Council ... Kathryn Carey Spence, Fort Worth International Center
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PRESIDENT'S CORNER
Heather Senter, Greater Fort Worth PRSA
I would like to take this opportunity to thank a couple of folks and welcome some new ones to the PRSA board. As many of you know, Ashley Wesson, our director of special projects, recently married and is moving to Tulsa, Okla. Best wishes, Ashley! Before leaving, she took on the huge task of planning the spring '06 Southwest District Conference in Fort Worth. In less than five months -- and while planning her own wedding -- Ashley organized 12 volunteers into a committee that has already secured a location and is working on speakers. Her torch will pass to another event planner extraordinaire, Tracy Sturrock of the Fort Worth Zoo. Ashley and Tracy will co-chair the district conference position, and Tracy will complete Ashley's term as special projects director.
Concerning the board, John Hoffmann, director of diversity, has been promoted at AmeriCredit. Congratulations, John! He decided to step down to focus his efforts on his newly expanded role. Tom Burke, APR, will fulfill John's remaining term.
A big thank you to Ashley and John for their service to our chapter. And a big thank you and welcome aboard to Tracy and Tom. There are many ways to serve our chapter through voting board positions, committee chairs and committee volunteers. If you'd like more information on ways to become involved, please e-mail me at heathersenter@charter.net.
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OVER & OUT
John Dycus, Fort Worth SPJ
A colleague of June 22 speaker Charles Lewis writes: "In recent years, Chuck has been preaching his brand of journalism across the globe. He has traveled extensively across the former Eastern bloc countries, South America, Africa and Asia, and helped establish a first-of-its-kind consortium of international investigative reporters, coordinating cross-border projects on subjects like chemical dumping, tobacco marketing and arms sales that help trace corrupt influences across continents. His most harrowing experience -- aside from dealing with Mike Wallace and the bureaucrats at '60 Minutes' -- was a careening car ride through the mountains that separate India and China at a high rate of speed on a narrow, single-lane road. Old car. Bad brakes. Questionable driver. Cars coming from the other direction. Thousand-foot drops everywhere. And all without the Indian driver's one indispensable safety feature ... a horn." Lewis' first meeting of the Center for Public Integrity's board of directors -- two close friends -- was at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore during an Orioles game. His passion outside journalism is movies, especially action films and the B-grade stuff that movie snobs disdain. He's a multifaceted character who has gone places you and I would like to go and done things we'd like to do, and isn't that why we go hear speakers? Never mind the Cacharel chocolate soufflé. No, do mind it. Lewis and the dessert alone are a fire sale at $30. The elegance and the ninth-floor view and the basil in the whipped potatoes -- we'll throw those in. ...
It took six WHEREASes, but the House of Representatives of the 79th Texas Legislature gloriously congratulatedDDonna Darovich on her retirement as UTA public affairs director. Donna left in October and is filling in for the summer as public information coordinator for the Tarrant County College District. Ironically, she reports via PR director Chris Smith to Bill Lace, whom she replaced as UTA public affairs director in 1981. She and Lace also worked together at UTA in what was then the public information office when she was an undergraduate and he was a sports information writer. "We warn communication undergrads to not burn any bridges with anyone while in college," she says. "You never know who will be your boss." It's like seven degrees of Donna Darovich.
Closing words: "The Holy Sprit intended to teach us in the Bible how to go to Heaven, not how the heavens go." -- Galileo, who was found guilty of heresy in 1633 for publishing evidence that the sun and not Earth is the center of the solar system; 359 years later, Pope John Paul II declared that Galileo had been unjustly condemned
Closing words II, G.W.B. & the Pharisees bracket: "It is my opinion that John Bolton is the poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be." -- Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio ... "Where, in the week after the Great Newsweek Error, is the comparable outrage in the press, in the blogosphere, and at the White House over the military's outright lying in the coverup of the death of former NFL star Pat Tillman? Where are the calls for apologies to the public and the firing of those responsible? Who is demanding that the Pentagon's word should never be trusted unless backed up by numerous named and credible sources? Where is a Scott McClellan lecture on ethics and credibility?" -- Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher
