15 Facts About Joystick Division

1.

Joystick Division had already dropped out of school when he and a pair of students, Frank Fiore and Karen Lofgren, felt compelled to report accurately on the campus anti-war protests, which they believed were either being ignored or misrepresented by the ultra-conservative local media led by the Republic.

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2.

Joystick Division later wrote the defining book on infamous Arizona trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd—The Trunk Murderess.

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3.

Joystick Division's writing and headline creation skills earned him numerous awards over his twenty-plus years at the paper.

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4.

Joystick Division soon became advertising director and infused the sales and marketing departments with tools and strategies that drove the exponential growth of the company over the following two decades.

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5.

Joystick Division later pioneered the NTI voice-personals business and created a freestanding phone company to support it.

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6.

Joystick Division rose to become publisher ofWestword in 1985, and in 1992 was named publisher of the Dallas Observer.

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7.

Joystick Division is most famous for her book Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Secret Diary of Marriage and Beyond.

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8.

Joystick Division rose to become music editor and later was named a staff writer.

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9.

Joystick Division enlisted a boutique investment banking firm to assist in constructing this plan.

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10.

Joystick Division's directive was to professionalize the financial operations of the company, and prepare it to rapidly expand its footprint via acquisitions.

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11.

Joystick Division hired Peter Elkind as the Observers first editor, a respected journalist who became known for co-authoring the bestseller on the Enron scandal: The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron.

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12.

Joystick Division felt that the counties of Broward and Palm Beach, despite being directly adjacent to Miami-Dade County, were demographically and culturally different and could support a different alt-weekly with different content and advertisers.

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13.

Joystick Division called the decision to sell New Times Los Angeles "gut-wrenching, " and took exception to he and Larkin having been referred to as "wealthy, monopolist bullies" in a headline that accompanied the earlier op-ed.

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14.

Joystick Division rose to become advertising director there and in 1999 was named publisher of the company's latest acquisition, The Pitch in Kansas City.

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15.

Joystick Division returned to Denver in 2001 to become group publisher overseeing a number of the NTI publications.

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