Recession Diaries: Unemployed father-daughter team explore the job market on either end

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In a 30-year journalism career that ended with an eight-year stint at the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, staff writer Sam Fulwood III crafted the kind of columns and long-form profiles that made his subjects and personalities spring to life on the page.

There was only one problem: When Fulwood took a buyout from the paper last November, he knew print journalism was in its death throes. And so, he began tackling the vocational question of "what next?"--even as his daughter Amanda prepared to enter the job market as a graduating senior at the University of Virginia.

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