Before and after Tony Snow, the editorial department shines
Yesterday I got a call from someone at Fox News about the program they were doing on Tony Snow. They wanted to put someone on the program who had worked with Tony here.
It made me think of some of the other distinguished thinkers and writers who have come through our editorial department. An incomplete list in no special order:
* Ed Yoder, who won a Pulitzer Prize at the Washington Star.
* Jonathan Yardley, who won a Pulitzer Prize at The Washington Post.
* Newsweek critic Malcolm Jones.
* Weekly Standard publisher Terry Eastland.
* John Alexander, retired president of the Center for Creative Leadership.
This would be an all-star department, except that some of them worked for the afternoon paper, The Greensboro Record, and others for the Greensboro Daily News. Some were liberal, some conservative. They also weren't here at the same time. Yoder started in 1961 and Alexander left in 1986 1990. And the list doesn't even include Bill Snider, who started it all by hiring Yoder and who stayed here until retirement.
Say what you will about the editorial positions they took, the department certainly is a career launching pad.