by Doug Thompson | Jan 31, 2016 | Musings
An email from a reader in Chicago — the city where hard-nosed, hard-headed and hard-drinking newspapermen pounded their typewriters and defined a hell-raising style of our profession that is now all but long-gone — wanted to know why I refer to myself as a...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 20, 2015 | Musings, News
Randy Hallman, a friend from high school days and son of the the couple who guided me into a career as a newspaperman, has long reported for The Richmond Times-Dispatch and was also an acknowledged sportswriter who covered NASCAR in its formative days. Like many of us...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 16, 2015 | Musings
Sadness and time for reflection this weekend. Two more of my longtime friends lost their jobs in newspapers. Both came to work at their papers Friday morning to computer-generated notices telling them to turn in their photo equipment and ID cards at the end of the...
by Doug Thompson | Aug 7, 2015 | Musings
Live and let live. That simple statement has long defined life in Floyd County, Virginia. And it may be a way of life that is also, more than ever, under attack. Floyd is a haven of free thinkers, those who defy limits on free speech and those who encourage...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 9, 2014 | Musings
Two years ago, while undergoing therapy to recover from a motorcycle accident that kept me in a coma for much of November 2012, my occupational therapist asked me about dreams. My response: “What dreams?” I told her that I was not dreaming. “No...
