Monday, November 29, 2010

Death of Obits

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Former PD reporter Jim Naughton has a thought-provoking piece about the dearth and "death of obits" on the Obit site. He says tha...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Our newest alum

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Elizabeth McIntyre is leaving the PD after 20 years in the newsroom. Her last day is 11/24. Elizabeth started on the copy desk in 1990 and e...

Holiday book sale!

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PD alumni, Mark your calendars for one of the finest perks in our building: the semi-annual sale of books, music, DVDs, audiobooks and sund...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Photo editor Ray Majestic dies

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Ray Matjasic led Plain Dealer photographers and won national awards Published: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 3:20 PM Updated: Thursday, N...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

Dan Coughlin's new book

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Lorain Journal Columnist and former Cleveland Magazine Editor Rich Osborne has a nice column about former PD sport writer Dan Coughlin's...

Fashionable Kim's boutique

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Former PD style editor Kim Crow has gone from telling us about fashion to selling fashion. She has opened a fabulous boutique in Tremont ca...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Mark Russell, editor of Orlando Sentinel

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Former Plain Dealer assistant ME and reporter Mark Russell was named editor of the Orlando Sentinel on Tuesday, accepting the top newsroom j...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Let's have lunch!

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PD Editorial Retirees & Expatriates Casual unstructured lunch troupe Gather for lunch on the last Fridays of January, April, July and Oc...

Re-connect with Pauline Thoma

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Pauline Thoma's daughter, Judy Nicoloff, reports that Pauline has moved to assisted living and would love to hear from other retirees. P...
Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Cavs writers joins ESPN

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Brian Windhorst, who covered the Cavs for the Akron Beacon Journal and The Plain Dealer is going to ESPN's new show: “The Heat Index,...
Sunday, October 03, 2010

Dubail on the move

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After nearly 19 years, Jean Dubail is leaving The PD. HE says" "I'm staying in Cleveland, but leaving the newspaper to work ...
Monday, September 27, 2010

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It was a full house at Don Bean's funeral and friends from far and wide were in attendance. Bean told people that he liked to go to fune...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Jeanne Albers

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Jeanne Albers died at age 66 in Santa Monica, California, Thursday morning. Cancer. She wrote in The Plain Dealer fashion department for a f...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Bean wrote his own obit

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While Grant Segal wrote the official obit of Don Bean for The Plain Dealer, Bean wrote his own draft of his obit. Former obit writer Alana B...
Monday, September 20, 2010

Bean's obit

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This is the official obit as written by Grant Segal. Bean wrote his own obit and former obit writer Alana Baranack posted it on her blog:ob...

Bean's life in the Depression

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Don Bean wrote a 19-page remembrance of life in the Depression. It can be seen at http://hson.info/Bean.pdf says Stu Abbey.
Sunday, September 19, 2010

Don Bean dies

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Donald Leander Bean, bean like in lima bean, died Sunday afternoon, Sept. 19, 2010, at Parma Community Hospital. He had been in the hospital...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Dan Biddle, author

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Former Plain Dealer reporter and all-around great guy Dan Biddle (and some other guy) wrote a great book called "Tasting Freedom" ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

This just in!

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Want to be notified when we post something new to the PD alumni blog? Go to http://www.pdalumni.blogspot.com/rss.xml and follow a couple of ...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Look who we ran into

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Lots of former PD people were spotted Sat. night July 31, 2010 at a birthday party for Sue Zimmerman, former free lancer for the PD now tea...