June Callwood

I’ve been a journalist for a very long time, and I don’t know any other profession that gives such a window on the world. In my era journalists rarely were college graduates and I never heard of a journalism school, so we all learned from patient colleagues — and developed a newsroom camaraderie that isn’t common any more. For a nervous teenager, far from home, newspaper city rooms were my introduction to the kindness of strangers.

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