Re: GWL WaPo column on newspapers

**J* L* <h*@yahoo.com>**

As a longtime newspaper writer/reporter/editor, I have to say that every word of that wonderfully written WaPo column (blog?) is true!

Those of you who don't know me can skip the rest of my note, which brings garden-writing friends up to date with some changes in my life.

I just left The Christian Science Monitor, where I was an editor. Every year there's a new downsizing and buyout, it seems, so since my husband and I have been wanting to move back South, I took the latest one. No hard feelings or anything on either side. Just that I wanted to leave Boston and it saved them money if I did. (We'll really miss it but the cost of living in the city is stratospheric.)

My husband and I have bought a house in Columbia, SC, and will be moving the end of next week.

And what will I be doing now that I'm not spending 12-hour days (plus large chinks of time on weekends) in the mostly online newspaper business? I have a new book due the first part of August, and the nine garden bloggers who were blogging together at Diggin' It on the Monitor's site are sticking together and going independent. We're ready to roll -- except for a name for the blog. (Anybody want to share a great suggestion??)

In the 11 years I was at the Monitor, the newspaper business changed completely. About the only thing that's the same is that we still deal with words. But the difference between my newspaper experiences in the 1980s and 1990s and now is like a different world. Will be interesting to see what happens next -- and how fast.

Judy Lowe

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> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:56:02 -0400
> From: "Sandie Parrott" <RSBirdy@comcast.net>
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> Good read! I totally agree with the amount of errors
> increasing with the
> pace the (used to be called) editors must produce copy...
> 
> Oh yeah, and the headlines...I don't take much time
> thinking up a great
> headline anymore...what is the use? However, I'm also
> guilty of using
> headlines on my blog specifically to get viewers...but, not
> all the
> time...sometimes I throw caution to the wind... (:-)
> 
> Sandie Parrott
> Clarkston, Michigan
> Writer & Photographer
> Website: www.SandieParrott.com
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> Phone: 248-394-1532

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