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 All the news that fits we print.
The Chautauquan
Daily is the official newspaper of the Chautauqua Institution.
It is a community newspaper distributed six days a week during
the summer season by carriers to subscribers at their homes within
the Institution. It is also sold by hawkers on Bestor Plaza each
summer morning as well as mailed to subscribers. The newspaper
is written and assembled at Chautauqua and sent to an off-site
printer who returns the finished publication to the Institution
very early the following day.
The newspaper
began as the Assembly Herald in 1876, two years after
the founding of the Chautauqua Institution. Since then, it has
continuously served Chautauquans with information about current
events and as the archival record. The newsroom has been a newswriting
and reporting training camp for well-known journalists such as
investigative reporter Ida Tarbell and current Time magazine
editor-at-large Nancy Gibbs.
The Daily covers
as many events as possible during the nine-week summer season.
Reporters and photographers fill its pages with news, feature
stories and daily up-to-date previews of the day's activities.
The seasonal staff are people who apply to be a part of the Chautauqua
experience as reporters, photographers, copy editors and page
designers. Their mission is to help all Chautauquans, first-timers
and those with multi-generation backgrounds, know about as many
speakers, programs, entertainment and special events as possible.
The staff each year is a mix of newcomers and veterans.
The 2007 newsroom
staff ranged in age from 19 to 80 years, with talented, experienced
interns from Kent State University, Ohio University, St. Bonaventure
University, University of Dayton, and University of North Carolina.
Other staff members included a university media teacher, retired
newspeople, free-lance journalists, a retired university professor,
a former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, a retired social worker
and a retired library director.
Those who think
they might like to work at The Chautauquan Daily during
the summer 2008 season should contact editor Matt Ewalt at PO
Box 28, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, 14722 , or at
mewalt@ciweb.org.
PLEASE NOTE:
The Chautauquan Daily newsroom and business office are now located
on the first floor of Kellogg Hall at the corner of Pratt and
Ramble.
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ABOUT THE EDITOR: Matt Ewalt is a graduate
of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and previously
worked as an editor at a daily newspaper in northwest Pennsylvania.
He is building the 2008 newsroom staff right now and is looking
for reporters, copy editors, page designers and photographers. |
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