Arizona journalism lost one of its most dedicated voices this week with the passing of Abe Kwok, a 36-year veteran of The Arizona Republic whose career embodied the grit and integrity that local news demands. Kwok started at the Republic in September 1989, and in a profession marked by constant turnover, he was that rare creature: a lifer. He covered … Read More
The Future of Journalism
By Brian C. Anderson, reposted from City Journal Three decades ago, the visionary social thinker Peter Huber published Orwell’s Revenge, a book that turned one of the twentieth century’s most haunting political parables on its head. Where George Orwell imagined a future of total information control, Huber saw the opposite: a world where digital technology shattered centralized authority. In 1984, the Ministry … Read More
Op-Ed: One last column to say thank you, Arizona
By Laurie Roberts, Reposted from the Arizona Republic I’m not good at goodbyes. Never have been. Goodbye means things are changing. Goodbye means yet another shift in a world that seems transformed with every set of the sun. Nothing is constant. Not even, as it turns out, me. I grew up loving newspapers. As a kid, I would tag along … Read More