A new title for a new challenge

I can think of few jobs as exciting or as important (to me) as being editor of a newspaper. I was so delighted to get the job as editor of The Gazette that it seems weird to give it up. Voluntarily, even. My wife, Mimi, knows how much I loved being editor. My colleague Mary [...]

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A reluctant farewell to valued colleagues

In the first 37 years of my journalism career, the worst day was July 24, 1992. That was the day I was fired. The publisher of the Minot Daily News called me into her office and told me I was no longer the editor. The proudest day of my journalism career was June 12, 2008. [...]

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