I am by nature a positive person.
So today, I am working to find a good spin on the fact that our newsroom is nearly 24 per cent smaller than it was yesterday.
Yesterday we saw section editors, copy editors, photographers and writers leave our newsroom – all of them excellent journalists – as part of a buyout program.
It’s no understatement to say the news business is in a period of transition, and change is never easy. This, too, is as cliched as it is true.
Our newsroom’s changes got me thinking about triathlons.
I recently started competing in triathlons again (No, not Iron Mans, and I’m no Simon Whitfield), and while the race is grueling, most competitors will agree that it is the transitions between sports that are the toughest test.
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