Thursday, April 06, 2006

Small-town editing

Perhaps one of the memorable aspects of the Collegian was not so much that it was a college paper, but that it was a small-town paper. Romenesko on Tuesday posted this appreciation of Jim Barbieri, a small-town newspaper editor in Indiana who recently died. His experiences seem amazingly similar to many times at the Collegian.

Here's another reflection on Barbieri, with some more familiar memories.