Saturday, May 10, 2008

Monitor's Pride to retire in June

According to the latest edition of the Columbia Journalism Review, the Concord Monitor's Mike Pride will be retiring in June [I don't recall him saying anything about that in the newspaper. Maybe I'm behind the curve].
In an article entitled, "My Year in the Trenches," Pride touches upon his last year with the newspaper working as a writer and reporter and not an editor. Pride clearly has a ton of respect for what today's journalists go through, noting that Monitor reporters could work a long day of covering politics and then get up first thing in the morning to do more but he couldn't. He also touched upon technology, stating that other reporters seem to be able to juggle all the new gadgets that he didn't even want to know about.
I can't link the article because it isn't posted on the CJR's Web site [that's one way to get folks to buy the magazine] but it is worth the read. Good luck to him and his future of research, history, travel with his wife, and relaxing.

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