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Subject:Re: What's an Advertorial? From:Marc Santacroce <santa -at- MAILHUB -dot- TFS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 18 Oct 1994 10:08:00 -0700
Sounds to me like they need an <editorial> writer.
On Mon, 17 Oct 1994, Rick Lippincott wrote:
> A friend of mine is job hunting, and saw an ad for an "advertorial" writer.
> She asked me "What's an advertorial?" Neither of us knew. We thought it
> might be one of those long, text filled ads you see in newspapers: the ones
> that are supposed to make us think they're a legitimate news article.
> Does anyone on this list know what an advertorial is? Thanks in advance...
> Rick Lippincott
> rjlippincott -at- delphi -dot- com
