CV wins Keystone press awards

The Citizens' Voice of Wilkes-Barre won five Keystone press awards. Winners include Dave Janoski, Bob Kalinowski, Heidi Ruckno, Andrew Staub and Erin Moody and Mark Moran. Kudos.

Former CV publisher named publisher of Mississippi paper

Ed Nichols, one of the poor guys brought in from outside to serve as "publisher" of the Citizens' Voice in the mid-1990s, has been named publisher of the Clarksdale (Miss.) Press Register. The late Carl Romanelli, in his book The Quivering Voice, described Nichols as allegedly a big spender and incompetent.

James Conmy of the Voice joins the W-B Police Department

Longtime Citizens' Voice reporter James Conmy was sworn in last week as a Wilkes-Barre police officer. Conmy was most recently covering county courts. Kudos.

Whaddya expect for a quarter?

The daily Citizens' Voice will be a quarter until further notice. "The change will make The Citizens’ Voice the best buy in Luzerne County," Publisher Scott Lynett says. Right.

You, too, could be a summer intern at the Citizens' Voice

The summer job ad from Larry Holeva is making the rounds in university journalism departments. Interns get paid (an unspecified amount) but are responsible for living and transportation expenses. Operators are standing by.

T-S looking for copy editor for W-B/Hazleton

The Standard-Speaker is looking for a copy editor. Send applications to Larry Holeva in at the CV in Wilkes-Barre.

You, too, could be on the CV editorial board

The Citizens' Voice is looking for someone to join the newspaper's editorial board as a "community member." Contact Jim Gittens -- and not Mike McGlynn, pictured nearby -- for details.

Best story ever: CV carrier has first W-B baby of '08, was carrying papers up until the end

Denise Allabaugh has the story of Cari Hunsinger, the CV carrier who had the first Wilkes-Barre baby of 2008 and who was carrying papers the morning before the blessed event. "My mom delivers newspapers with me. My hips were starting to hurt. I get out and walk a lot," she tells the CV. "Last night, I fell on the ice. That probably helped speed this up.”

Kudos to the Voice and reporter Michael Buffer

Kudos to the Citizens' Voice, which broke the story this week of the prison official who put his trip to a Vegas nudie bar on a county debit card. Reporter Michael Buffer has been on the case from the beginning, and in Monday's editions writes about how another $2,700 in charges from the same guy - Sam Hyder - are also suspicious. The story has been on the state wires.

It's been funny to read the CV lead the story, read Steve Corbett credit the Voice, and then read the TL credit Corbett.

The Citizens' Voice is looking for a sports writer

You, too, could be covering Wyoming Seminary field hockey and the occasional King's College wrestling match. The CV is advertising on journalismjobs.com that they'll consider "entry-level reporters with strong journalism backgrounds." Call today!

Who is the CV enterprise reporter who just graduated to a major metro?

From Journalismjobs.com:

The Citizens' Voice, a growing 33,000 daily newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., has immediate openings for enterprise, bureau and features reporters.

ENTERPRISE: Our previous ENTERPRISE reporter recently graduated to a major metropolitan newspaper, and we're agressively recruiting to find a talented replacement capable of covering issues in a deep, enterprising way. The ideal candidate will be able to judggle daily news coverage with mid- and project-level enterprise. We're looking to hire a difference maker with previous daily newspaper experience is required.

I like your team engine

It's not the Citizens' Voice misspelling a common noun in a headline that is so painful. It's seeing that misspelled headline still online hours (and hours and hours) later. They -do- understand that Web pages can be revised, right?

Finally, a way to get rich at the CV

(UPDATE: The paper sold for $9.50.) We tried to ignore the Voice solidifying its place at the kiddie table by playing along with the WWE's faked murder of Vince McMahon in Wilkes-Barre Township. But now that day's paper is going for $7.50 a pop on eBay. Who said there's no reward for bad journalism?

The CV to disappear as its own newspaper?

The Voice, in a terse announcement from its publisher, says the paper will now be "an edition of Times-Shamrock Newspapers." What does this mean? Will the CV no longer be listed as a newspaper by the ABC? Did the TL just -- at least on paper -- win the newspaper war?

Towtruck Bob calls CV 50 times a day, shows up in newsroom

Voice columnist Mike McGlynn writes of Wilkes-Barre tow-truck operator Bob Kadluboski, who captured a fugitive at gunpoint this week: "This guy not only is a friend to law enforcement officials, he's a gigantic boon to the local media." McGlynn also gets the words "hell" and "bitching" into print. Impressive.

Golias, formerly of the CV, wins an award

Paul Golias, the paper's former managing editor who still writes a column, was honored by some local churches for pushing for regionalization. Kudos.

BREAKING: Quiet Riot to play Woodlands in honor of Rock 107 birthday

Erstwhile friend and CV radio "columnist" Mary Ondrako reports that Rock 107 (also owned by CV owner Times Shamrock) will be throwing a big party at the Woodlands to mark the station's 27th birthday. Except that it's not really the station's 27th birthday, or something like that.

WyVal soldier in Iraq loves reading the CV

Broadsheet newspapers are too hard to read, Chuck Mazzarella writes from Iraq, and he loves those CVs his parents mail him.

You, I don't know. Um, I don't know that I would have, I don't know.

The Citizens' Voice published on Saturday an interview transcript with Luzerne County Prothonotary Jill Moran. It's an interesting insight into the interview methods of Dave Janoski and Larry Holeva. And it also makes Moran look like a blithering idiot.

P.S. Brian Tierney wants his royalty check

The Voice also redesigned the paper, and Page One looks nothing like the Daily News in Philadelphia. Nothing at all.