Jay Ulku
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| Location | Fargo, North Dakota, United States |
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| Introduction | I've worked at The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead since February 1987. I'm now a dayside news editor. I started out in the newspaper business in 1974 by working for a suburban Minneapolis chain of weeklies between my junior and senior years at the University of Minnesota. I was editor of the St. Anthony and Columbia Heights Sun that summer. During my senior year, I was editor of four weeklies and the sports editor for nine weeklies. After graduating in 1975, I applied for a job as editor of the weekly newspaper in Wolf Point, Mont.; population 3,500. I figured it would be nice to move from Minneapolis to the mountains. I didn't realize Wolf Point in northeast Montana was still 500 miles from the mountains of western Montana. I set a record by working at the Wolf Point Herald-News for almost three years. In 1978, I moved 50 miles west down Highway 2 to become editor of the Glasgow Courier, another weekly. It was the big city; population 3,500. Five years later, I became managing editor of The Dickinson Press, a daily in western North Dakota. From there, I ended up in Fargo on the copy desk in February 1987. |