Doom & gloom? Not in our newsroom

BEND – “Son, get out of the business.

My first break in the newspaper industry was 1983, typing in sports statistics and weather data for The Miami News, an afternoon paper in my hometown. The newsroom was on the sixth of six floors, surrounded on two sides by nearly floor-to-ceiling glass panels looking over Biscayne Bay and a causeway that took you to the beach.

The sunrise usually coincided with our early…