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Are work samples too old?

Q: I've worked at three dailies in this state, each one bigger than the previous. I've done work I'm proud of at my current paper, but also did some great work at the previous paper but that was three years ago. I want to send some of those older clips because I won awards for a few of them, but I remember you saying that clips shouldn't be more than a year or so old.

What do you think?

Katie

A: I think three years is pretty old.

It begs the question why you haven't topped that clip at your newer, larger newspaper.

Posted by Joe Grimm 7:00 AM July 8, 2006
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