Jane Scott

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Career history

While attending the University of Michigan, Scott's first exposure to journalism was as a staff member of the Michigan Daily. Scott was hired by the Cleveland Press newspaper as a secretary in their advertising department in 1942. She enlisted in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) later that year, rising to the rank of Lieutenant. She took some additional classes at the Wilcox College of Communication in Cleveland to learn typing and shorthand after leaving the Navy. She began working with the Chagrin Valley Herald as the Women's Editor about this time. She has also started to work as a stringer reporter for The Plain Dealer. She was not a member of The Plain Dealer Company, but she reported on events in Chagrin Falls, Russell, Bentleyville, and Pepper Pike, Cleveland suburbs.

Alan Freed, a Cleveland disc jockey, announced The Moondog Coronation Ball at the Cleveland Arena, which is known as the first rock and roll tribute, but Scott was not in attendance at this historic performance. Scott was hired as an assistant society reporter with The Plain Dealer on March 24, 1952, at the age of 33, and focusing on the local social scene of A-List weddings and Debutante Balls. Scott started "Senior Class," a senior citizen newspaper that she wrote for almost two decades.

She inherited the "Boy & Girl" column in 1958; at the time, it was a full page in the newspaper. It was the beginning of the present day's rock coverage in The Plain Dealer, which attracted seven- and eight-year-olds. The column's name changed to "Young Ohio" and was eventually referred to as "Teen Time" later in life. "She's been covering everything from pimples to pensions," Scott characterized her reporting beat. Scott covered the Beatles' first Cleveland appearance at Public Hall on September 15, 1964, and then moved to England in 1966 to cover the Beatles' tour. Before the Beatles' September 14, 1966 performance at Cleveland Stadium, she also interviewed them. "I knew what the kids wanted to read when the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan's show." I was never really interested in anything else until I found rock." At the time, The Plain Dealer was the only major American newspaper to have a full-time music critic on staff, so Scott is considered to be the world's first rock critic. She spent every Saturday night for six years as The Plain Dealer's Rock Editor, preparing for her eventual work as The Plain Dealer's Rock Editor.

Scott's "Time" column became a five-page cornerstone for a new concept in The Plain Dealer, a tab-format entertainment section entitled "Go With The Plain Dealer." The "Go" word appeared on every Friday for only four weeks and was renamed "The Action Tab." On June 4, 1976, the name "Friday Magazine" was changed to the present "Friday Magazine." She wrote the weekly "What's Happening" column in The Plain Dealer's Friday Magazine in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, as well as regular artist interviews, album reviews, and concert reports. She adored all forms of rock and made acquaintances with several musicians. Lou Reed said she was one of the few people to treat him with respect in his early years as a performer; Lyle Lovett, a "true friend," as she often told the tale of accompanying Jimi Hendrix to buy a blue Corvette.

The Plain Dealer attempted to replace Scott in 1987, but the newspaper's editors were reluctant to change plans due to strong media outrage and backlash, as well as feature articles in People Magazine, MTV News, and The Wall Street Journal. In 1991, Scott was inducted into the Cleveland Press Club Hall Of Fame. After 50 years at The Plain Dealer, Scott was fired in April 2002. Scott said she had attended over 10,000 concerts and music festivals in her career. "What was the name of your high school?" Jane's signature interview question was "What was the name of your high school?"

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