Most of the quotes we’ve seen about Knight-Ridder’s trade of the Tallahassee Democrat to Gannett have been of the corporate “it will be a great fit” variety. Trust a retired editor of the paper to put it into a journalist’s perspective.
“Once you have worked for a newspaper, you always love it even years later. This feels like one of my early loves has gone off and married an accountant,” said former managing editor and executive editor Walker Lundy.
Read the Democrat‘s story here.