Proof: There is Life After Journalism

 

 

BY BUDDY NEVINS

 

Yes, there is life after journalism!

Below is the proof, taken at a Broward Workshop event at Signature Grand last week.

The picture from the Facebook page of Nick Sortal, former Sun-Sentinel reporter and now Plantation commissioner.  That’s Sortal in a red tie on the right.

On the left and holding a cup is Earl Maucker. My boss for roughly three decades, Maucker was the managing editor and then the editor of the Sun-Sentinel.  I loved working for him.

When Maucker left the Sun-Sentinel, he didn’t sail off into the sunset. He joined the other side! He is now a Lighthouse Point commissioner.

 

 

In the middle is former editorial writer Doug Lyons, who now works for himself.  He is one of the most pleasant and thoughtful folks I ever worked with.  It was the Sun-Sentinel’s loss when he left.

Then there is Gail Bulfin. Sortal called her the “former reader advocate,” but she was so much more over the years. At one point she was the administrator of the then-sprawling news operations. And she was always very plugged-in to Fort Lauderdale as a longtime resident, which was great in a newsroom of newbies.

Bulfin is now Vice President of membership at the Broward Alliance business group.

So those still working for newspapers or other financially strapped segments of the media should note. Being laid off, retiring or just leaving journalism is not the end of the world.

Sortal, Maucker, Lyons and Bulfin prove that there is life after journalism. Notice they are all smiling!

 



6 Responses to “Proof: There is Life After Journalism”

  1. City activist Robert Walsh says:

    And u forgot mayoral ast.Scott Wyman.Scott was a county reporter for the Paper.Scott is truly an assessment to Mayor Trantalis.Genius on the computer.He also knows more as to what the issues and concerns are for the residents better than some commissioners…

    FROM BUDDY:

    Thanks very much, Mr. Walsh, for your comment

    Scott was a terrific reporter and a friend.

    He sat next to me at the Sun-Sentinel and we worked together on many stories. Some of them even won awards.

    Scott was smart enough to leave the newspaper business at the right time. He now puts his considerable abilities to work for Mayor Trantalis.

    I’m happy that somebody in Fort Lauderdale recognizes how lucky residents are to have somebody like Scott Wyman working for them in city hall.

  2. Resident says:

    Earl has done some good in Lighthouse Point to the amazement of those who feared he would be just another tax-and-spend liberal.

  3. Count. LF Chodkiewicz Chudzikiewicz says:

    Scott Wyman is wonderful and I am glad FORT LAUDERDALE Sun Sentinel journalists are surviving BUT THE DEATH OF LARGE URBAN n SMALL RURAL NEWSPAPERS is making us DUMBER N DUMBER.

    Blogs rsnge from excellent to useless BUT A NEWSPAPER WITH A BUILDING MORGUE REPORTERS COLUMNISTS N EDITORS including Copy Editors n PROOFREADERS is ESSENTIAL for REALLY IN DEPTH SERIOUS JOURNALISTIC COVERAGE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD CITY COUNTY OR STATE LET ALONE A NATION.

    FROM BUDDY:

    Unfortunately, most newspapers are a thing of the past. I didn’t do a survey, but I don’t know anybody under of Yesterday who subscribes to a print newspaper or reads one.

    I have two sons, 30 and 38. Both are professionals and both are well-educated. Neither one reads a print newspaper. They do surf the web for news with most of their stops being Internet sites that have no connection to the print media.

    Some longtime print newspapers may survive as websites, but it isn’t the same.

    Former Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger wrote about newspapers and the Internet in his 2018 book “The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now:”

    “The structures look sound,” he wrote about newspapers, “but have been hollowed out from within and, if you’re really unlucky, turn to dust…the economic system for supporting journalism looks dangerously unstable. The stakes for truth have never been higher.”

  4. Count. LF Chodkiewicz Chudzikiewicz says:

    Mr Nevins. I have met l son n know your second by reputation. Both are highly literate BUT YOU N COUNSELLOR FIELDS in YOUR 30s had GREATER IN DEPTH VERIFIED NEWS than websites with NO EDITIRS NO PROOFREADERS and FACT CHECKERS. QUANTITY OF INFORMATION IS NOT WHAT WE NEED BUT QUALITY INFORMATION.

  5. City activist Robert Walsh says:

    I am 52 and read the newspaper everyday.Probably to make sure I’m not in it..

  6. Count of nothing says:

    Buddy is this a true:

    JAAB
    Anonymous
    MARCH 20, 2019 AT 9:48 AM
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    Nevins has always been kind of a tool.

    For example, he writes “the candidates are largely in sync on the issues.”, when only 1 of the candidates has stated a platform when they filed.

    FROM BUDDY:

    No