Aging Out
December 3, 2009 - by
As an ex-News & Observer employee (I left in 1975), I’m always interested in the 25-year club members.
The ad in today’s paper was revealing.
Of the 62 members, only five work in news. One more is in editorials. And two more are in interactive media.
That is, only five people in the newsroom were there when Jim Hunt and Jesse Helms collided for the Senate in 1984.
Clearly, institutional memory is a victim of the newspaper depression (not recession).
A footnote: If I’d stayed, I’d have 44 years. (I started as a 16-year-old copyboy).
Except they would have retired me long ago.
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Aging Out
December 3, 2009/
As an ex-News & Observer employee (I left in 1975), I’m always interested in the 25-year club members.
The ad in today’s paper was revealing.
Of the 62 members, only five work in news. One more is in editorials. And two more are in interactive media.
That is, only five people in the newsroom were there when Jim Hunt and Jesse Helms collided for the Senate in 1984.
Clearly, institutional memory is a victim of the newspaper depression (not recession).
A footnote: If I’d stayed, I’d have 44 years. (I started as a 16-year-old copyboy).
Except they would have retired me long ago.
Posted in General