Editorials & Other Articles

I was fresh out of journalism school and working for the Chicago Tribune when they decided to fold their afternoon paper, Chicago Today. The Sun-Times followed suit a few years later by ending the Chicago Daily News.

As the Tribune absorbed some of the Chicago Today staff, there were layoffs and three guesses who was among the last hired. After that while hanging with reporter friends, I'd hear a lot more talk about the advertisers and profit. I guess they also were afraid of falling victim to increasing staff cuts.

It's just not the same. I'm happy to have had a brief role in what real journalism was all about. Now a lot of schools call journalism communications. It's just not the same.

I really miss those days, and the product we produced. To this day, I dream of working in that environment again.