Life Lessons from Retired Journalists

Reflections on four years of interviews with highly successful newspaper people

I’ve been interviewing retired journalists for just over four years now: some active ones, a few who now teach in university journalism departments, but mostly retired journalists. The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, NPR, PBS, but mostly the International Herald Tribune.

I was in Paris in 2013 when the IH…