It’s been at least a decade since newspapers began to realize that the world, as they knew it, was ending. Rapid adoption of broadband internet…
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Monday will be an exciting day around our newsroom, and a milestone for The Columbian. For the first time since Jack Campbell, then the editor…
I actually like Mondays. Mondays are one of the easier days of the week for me. The Sunday stories generally aren’t ready to be edited,…
The news business runs a little bit like the airlines. We set a time schedule, then try like crazy every day to meet it. It’s…
I went to college with a lot of people who became TV journalists, and one of the things we liked to talk about was George…
Although we don’t write news stories to please elected officials, oftentimes they like them. That’s fine by me. We try to do a good job…
We are pretty excited around The Columbian about this coming Tuesday. It is not about the primary election, although election night does make a journalist’s…
OK, I probably deserved what happened on Monday. After telling you last week that we were predictably in the middle of the summer news doldrums,…
Although you wouldn’t know it by the weather, we are in the middle of the summer news season. I feel like a meteorologist this time…
It almost feels like the old band is getting back together. A few months ago, I got a call from Jeff Mize, for many years…









