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"CBS MarketWatch" is hiring 40 editors and reporters -- general assignment business writers (recent college grads), journalists who have covered specific financial beats -- over the next six months across several bureaus, including San Francisco, New York and Boston. Send résumés to Bettina Leong, operations manager, news, "CBS MarketWatch," bleong@marketwatch.com. ... An entry-level reporter position is open at KTXS-TV in Abilene. Send tapes to Iain Munro, KTXS-TV, 4420 N. Clack, Abilene 79601. ...
Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide seeks a VP-level tech business-to-business PR person based in Dallas and with chipset experience. This would likely be a part-time contract, possibly moving into full-time salaried. Contact Ogilvy human resources managing director Mindy S. Gikas at mindy.gikas@ogilvypr.com.
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COMINGS & GOINGS
Additions ... at the S-T: Angelica Cortez, part-time news researcher; she graduates with a master in library science from TWU in May
Promotions ... at the S-T: Tommy Cummings, formerly Arlington night metro editor, to editor of Alliance Regional Newspapers ... Kevin Lyons, formerly higher education reporter, to night metro editor in Arlington
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PRESIDENT'S CORNER
Pamela Smith, Greater Fort Worth PRSA
Members of the Public Relations Student Society of America ventured out on a large passenger bus April 21 for a three-island mystery tour of public relations offices. Three students and an adviser from ACU, eight students from TCU and one student from UTA went along for the ride. Pro Am Day encompassed three surprise destinations -- JPS Health Network, Burlington Northern and Texas Motor Speedway -- that either scared the students into changing majors or gave them perspective on the hard work and dedication that makes great companies and organizations. Andra Bennett, PRSA student liaison, coordinated the effort and served as the tour guide.
The day concluded with a delicious meal at Joe T. Garcia's and a presentation from public affairs director Chris Lippincott of the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault. He spoke on how the organization managed a $2 million grant from the Texas Attorney General's Office to embark on an integrated statewide awareness campaign -- a fitting topic, since April 18-24 was Crime Victims' Rights Week.
Greater Fort Worth PRSA has been doing Pro Am Day for years because we believe in guiding students who want to advance in our profession. I just wish more students would see the value in participating; the chapter easily could sponsor twice as many. It's not every day that companies open their doors to outsiders and share their trade secrets. Considering the tight job market where job seekers need as many advantages as possible, let's encourage more students to take advantage of this learning and networking opportunity.
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OVER & OUT
John Dycus, Fort Worth SPJ
Lucy Dalglish singed the Bush administration at Fort Worth SPJ's awards dinner April 30 over the USA Patriot Act, the Homeland Security Act and 10 specific erosions of Americans' freedoms, and she had our attention like an oncoming train. The executive director of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press keynoted a splendid evening of awards presentations and scholarship recognition at Ridglea Country Club. Lucy has our gratitude. More on her speech and the awards and scholarship recipients in the June eChaser. ...
Combat deaths mount in Iraq, while rebuilding efforts continue to expand. The BBC looks at five critical sectors -- health, education, water, oil, electricity -- and finds progress both robust and halting. Good reading. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3605557.stm. ...
Have you signed up for a course, donated a book or attended an event at one of our newest advertisers -- Texas Wesleyan University, Friends of the Fort Worth Public Libraries or Bass Performance Hall? You should. The ad rail just keeps growing. ...
John Kerry or Drew Carey? Last month we noted that the president had praised one Fathi Jahmi as a woman imprisoned by Libya in 2002 for advocating free speech and democracy, except Dr. Rice must not have read it to him that Jahmi is a man. Now The Washington Post reports that Bush's Democratic challenger doesn't know who the U.N. special envoy to Iraq is. Two days in a row, Kerry called Lakhdar Brahimi "Brandini." Not to be confused with the Great Brandini, sword swallower.
Closing words: "Being nice to each other is the best form of self-interest." -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, speaking at UTA ... "In New York City, they honk at people they want out of the way. In Hooks, we honked at people we wanted to take out." -- Star-Telegram sports writer and UTA Shorthorn ex David Thomas on strolling the Big Apple ... "Hiding the death and destruction of this war does not make it easier on anyone except those who want to keep the truth away from the people." -- Bill Mitchell, father of a U.S. Army soldier killed in Iraq; Mitchell believes that his son was in one of the caskets shown in the photograph that The Seattle Times ran ... "Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States." -- then-Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney in October 1986 after he introduced legislation to create an import tax that would have raised the price of oil, and ultimately the price of gasoline paid by drivers, by billions of dollars per year ... "On '60 Minutes' last Sunday night, Bob Woodward suggested the main reason President Bush took the country to war was that he thinks he's on a mission from God; but the problem with that is that's also Osama bin Laden's reason." -- Jay Leno ... "We punched a big black bear in the eye and got him angry as hell but had no immediate plan to disable him, so of course he struck back in a very vicious way." -- Larry Diamond, senior adviser to the U.S.-led occupation authority in Baghdad, on the uprising led by Moqtada al-Sadr after the U.S. administrator of Iraq shut down a tabloid newspaper run by the Shiite Muslim cleric ... "America always does the right thing -- after it has exhausted all the alternatives." -- Winston Churchill
