No Ukulele

“Journalism took a nineteen-year-old kid with not a lot of money and transformed his life. I owe some things to journalism. I wouldn’t mind thinking about ways to pay back some of that debt, but I’m not going to learn to play the ukulele or anything like that.”

—Dean Baquet, on retirement, “Joe Kahn to succeed Dean Baquet as New York Times executive editor,” The Washington Post, April 19, 2022.

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Sleep in. You earned it.

 

 

PeezPIX 

After the rain

 

 

 

 

 

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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.”—Tom Stoppard

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
Today's WORD on Journalism