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Bruce Hight

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His editorial column today is, "A burning desire to gather news and help keep watch was most fulfilling."Today is my last at the Austin American-Statesman after 32 years, and after 37 as a newspaper reporter and editorial writer. I am one of 12 newsroom veterans at the Statesman who accepted the owner's early retirement offer and the last to actually leave; I was asked to stay until the end of the current legislative session. I have no predictions to offer about the future of newspapers or news reporting, and they are not the same. I'll just say that this community deeply needs the local and state reporting that the Statesman brings to it every day. Nor do I have a farewell speech about great lessons learned in newspaper journalism, which has been my life since I was 18 years old and realized, while working at my college newspaper at the University of Tennessee (the real UT, or at least the senior one), that it was my calling...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).