Now here's a very good idea. Mike Pride, editor of the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire for 24 years, is spending his final year with the paper as a reporter. He gave up the editor's office in June and has since proved to be the newsroom's most productive and prolific writer.
Publisher Geordie Wilson says that allowing Pride to go back reporting has had three benefits: it has improved the overall quality of the paper's writing, it enables the ex-editor to mentor younger staff, and it creates "a graceful way to help us prepare for life after Mike." (Via Columbia Journalism Review)
