Mike Wilson, editor of the Dallas Morning News since 2015, has resigned the position, and the almost sixyear tenure probably has seemed much longer.
He was charged with what likely is an inevitability, that of converting most delivery of news from “the printed page” to digital transmission. Somehow, he has maintained excellence in both. There’s no way the assignment could have been “cushy.”
His comments to colleagues expressed well his own deep feelings as well as those of contemporaries across the land: “Running a newspaper today is like swimming across a hot fudge river. You gorge yourself on the decadent pleasure of ...