A journo's jottings under no deadline pressure (since Jan 1, 2010)
One male friend to another:
And so I told my boss: Sir, I report for work every day at 9 am. So shouldn’t I be allowed to leave early on some evenings?
And the bastard tells me: Who asks you to start early? Why don’t you come in like all the others at 10.30 am?
So now I park my car on the uppermost tier of the parking lot at nine every morning, catch up on my sleep for the next one and half hours, and only then walk into my office.
Here’s a mediaman who’s seen it all, done it all… over more than four decades… from letterpress to Internet publishing. Along the way, he has brought out corporate in-house magazines; assigned work to and guided and supervised the efforts of reporters; commissioned news and feature stories, analyses, comment pieces and special reports; coordinated with networks of correspondents; reworked cover stories and features and helped launch magazines as well as corporate websites. And all along, he continues improving on his basic skills of writing/editing and photography…
Not On Assignment 