David Bristow wasn’t meant to be a sports journalist. He is too smart. Too interested in real-world topics. He was meant to make news, not report on it. But for 3-4 years there, he did more than dabble in sports journalism, and we all had a splendid time. David may be as fondly remembered by […]

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Dan Hawkins was as bright as anyone I ever worked with. As witty and amusing, too. A guy ready to laugh, someone who was conversant in a myriad of subjects and expert in more than a few. He was the resident NASA expert, even when he was working in sports, and when the space shuttle […]

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Anyone who has run a sports department knows the importance of clerks. Better to lose a beat writer than your ace agate clerk. Who may be all of 19 years old. You can put out a section with a wire baseball story. You can find a dozen competent people eager to cover baseball. But you […]

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It appears that while trying to keep track of all the titled players in the San Bernardino Sun/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin upheaval … I really could have used a program. Someone with knowledge of the situation wrote to correct some of the information on the blog item directly below this one. The overall concept is […]

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I had heard rumblings about continued upheaval in the offices of the San Bernardino Sun and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Two papers led by Steve Lambert, the guy who fired me two months ago. But I haven’t seen either paper with any regularity since then, and my contact with survivors of those two papers has […]

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Apparently, the L.A. News Group newspapers still are struggling to publish. This is Day 2 and it may be next week — Day 6 or 7, that is — before LANG’s overworked and underpowered (and shared) Unisys computer system comes up. (See techie updates over at the Reporter-G blog.) A former LANG layout editor told […]

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I happened to be in San Bernardino this morning, and I saw the mess of a paper that was thrown on people’s doorsteps. I didn’t know it was an L.A. News Group-wide problem-cum-disaster until I got this link from Reporter G. He is a former staffer at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, and has good […]

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Confession up front: Spike Speigner was gone from The Sun newsroom several years before 1984. Probably no later than 1981. Maybe even late 1980. But Spike Speigner popped into my head the other day, and I believe he warrants mention in my series on people I worked with. Even if he’s a little out of […]

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Word out of the “Eastern Division” of L.A. News Group is that about a half-dozen advertising layout/design people previously located at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune have been instructed to report to work at the San Bernardino Sun offices, beginning Monday. This is only the latest episode in what has been a pattern of employee-jerk-arounds […]

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Some of us fell into print journalism. Some of us discovered it fairly late. Some of us knew we were destined for newspapers. Early and with absolute certainty. That was/is Vic West. I never pinned him down on this, but I bet he knew — KNEW — he was going to be a sports journalist […]

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