A lot of people who watched Kansas and Memphis play for the NCAA basketball championship last night probably assumed Calipari & Co. soon would be cutting down the nets when Memphis took a nine-point lead, at 60-51, with 2:12 to play.Or when the Tigers led by six, 62-56, with 1:39 to play. That game was […]

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Much has been written about the deep cuts in the L.A. Daily News newsroom, the subsequent ouster of ace editor Ron Kaye, and the gutting of the once-proud Long Beach Press-Telegram (essentially reduced to a bureau of the Torrance Daily Breeze). Bad stuff. But it turns out that life as a professional journalist is even […]

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Perhaps you saw my advertisement in the San Bernardino Sun this morning. Thanks for taking the time to look me up. Since nobody bothered to tell you what happened to me, my wife thought I should take out an ad in the paper. I thought it was worth the $83.40 investment to update The Sun’s […]

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Someone who saw my entry on 10 tips for keeping a print journalism job … sent in a comment asking how one goes about getting a print journalism job in the first place. A fair question. One I will attempt to handle here … once we stipulate that print journalism jobs are disappearing out of […]

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Claude Anderson was almost 54 years old on Aug. 16, 1976, my first day on the job at the San Bernardino Sun-Telegram, as the newspaper was known back then. I was just another college kid, all of 22, who thought he was pretty smart … and that Claude Anderson was some antediluvian relic who was […]

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Oh, something that struck me while being at the NCAA games in Anaheim on Thursday: How disconnected I feel, already, from the people covering the event for media outlets. Even from the heights of Section 414 I could see people I know down there at the tables on press row. Frank Burlison, Mike Waldner, Billy […]

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My first entry on this blog was a recounting of being fired. Which I intended to be, oh, a look at one company’s methods of getting rid of a long-time employee in a time of crisis. I can’t say it was blog-as-catharsis because I don’t remember feeling any worse before or any better after. In […]

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This isn’t easy, but compiling a list isn’t as impossible as it would have been 10 years ago. Back in the 20th century, the greater Los Angeles market had seven, eight, nine full-service sports sections, each with its own panoply of beat writers. To have some sense of the best 10 individuals among what would […]

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“Ha!” you say. What does he know about this? He just got fired! Got me there. Actually, I believe I DO know something about this topic, after nearly 32 years in the business, 23 of them as a departmental manager — and at least three years watching the slow-moving train known as the Unemployment Local […]

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