![]() “So, the college computer lab at night.” She taped J.M.N. (She blames her first real job.)īut where could a rookie set up her newsroom? “At the beginning, anywhere that had free printing privileges,” she said. “Even, like, volume two I remember thinking, What if I did this for twenty years?” Now she publishes, on average, one issue per week her longest break in publication was between May 25, 2012, and September 17, 2014. Mills initially printed eleven copies and distributed them to her teachers, friends, and family, and found herself hooked. Disaster struck when unknowingly to her the heat intensity on the toaster was set to 4 instead of her usual 3.” Mills, 17 a resident of Shoreview decided on a crannberry-orange bagel. I don’t know where it came from-I think I had, like, twenty minutes before class.” The lead story was headlined “Breakfast News”: “This morning Jennifer awoke wondering what to have for breakfast. “I remember writing it in my high-school computer lab. ![]() The thirty-eight-year-old newspaperwoman-who wore a gray sweatshirt, jeans, and green-and-orange Nikes, and had her hair in a messy bun-gestured to a page at the top of the grid. “And I went through a full ream of paper.” “I used up two toner cartridges for this,” she noted, proudly. ![]() Don’t Tell Me!”-was taping more than two decades’ worth of single-page editions of J.M.N. Mills-who is also a writer and producer for the NPR news-quiz program “Wait Wait . . . The other day, Jennifer Mills, the editor-in-chief (and only employee) of Jennifer Mills News, prepared to commemorate twenty-one years of her periodical with an exhibit at the Brick Aux gallery, in Williamsburg, on view through March 19th. Every week, at least two American newspapers cease publication-a major loss for readers seeking local scoops.
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