Today's Society of Professional Journalists' SPJ Press Notes, an aggregator of news about the worlds of print, broadcast and online journalism, carries this notice above its batch of headlines:

I can't think of a better editor for the job... In fact, when I was dragooned into teaching editing a few years before coming to Tennessee, an editing textbook by Dr. Bowles' helped save my class from complete disaster.  Dorothy also has led the East Tennessee Pro Chapter of SPJ to several awards.

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Kidnapped Journalist Jill Carroll's Story. Jill Carroll, a freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped while in Iraq and held hostage for 82 days. The Christian Science Monitor and Boston Herald are printing her story as a serial. [j's scratchpad]
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