When newspapers is all you've ever known

Sherry Gryder's work world has been nothing but newspaper operations -- often its most unglamorous side. She was a hand-inserter in Virginia and became the first-ever woman to work as a laborer in the packaging department of Dow Jones' White Oak plant in Maryland. In 2005 Gryder was named manager at College Park, MD, -- the plant Kelly Benson opened a few years earlier and ran until she departed for the Orlando Sentinel in early 2000. Recognition of those intersecting non-newspaper interests and newspaper experience emerged after a brief initial discussion with a career services firm, she says.