When I reached out to you for some feedback a few weeks ago with my “When did we become a right-wing newspaper?” column, there were a number of things that I was hoping to hear.
I was hoping to hear that, by and large, we were presenting a broad range of opinions through our selection of [...]

One of the many benefits – and, yes, curses – of being a journalist in a digital age is that you don’t have to wait very long for someone to tell you what they really think about you.
When I first started in this business way back in the Dark Ages, if someone wanted to take [...]

I must say the initial response to my decision to begin imposing a 250-word limit on letters to the editor this week has been pretty reasonable.
Other than the two comments at the end of the original blog item, “Readers say tighten up on those verbose letters,” I’ve heard from a handful of people informally.
First, [...]

Several months ago – yikes! – I wrote a column titled “Do you think our letters are too long?” to seek your advice on, well, whether our letters to the editor are too long.
And as is usually the case, you weren’t bashful about offering your two-cents’ worth – and rest assured that your feedback was [...]

Like most of you, I’m sure, I’ve spent many of my 50-something years observing the Memorial Day holiday by standing along sidewalks at parades, attending solemn ceremonies or hosting family cookouts and the like.
Sometimes, the decision to show up and pay tribute was out of a sense of doing the right thing; other times, the [...]

It’s springtime in New England, and things are starting to bloom – crocuses, daffodils, tulips and other native flowers to the region.
But flowers aren’t the only things that seem to be “growing” around here this time of year.
So are our letters to the editor. (No fertilizer jokes, please.) That is, they seem to be getting [...]

Please play along with me for a moment while I try to make a point.
You’ve just walked into a company meeting, none of your closest colleagues are there yet, and you have the option of joining one of three ongoing group conversations:
A) What happened on the latest episode of “American Idol.”
B) Which colleges are going [...]

One of the things newspapers are doing much better today than when I first got into this business three decades ago is engaging readers in a conversation about what they do – or, for that matter, don’t do.
Much of the reason for that is technological, of course – there was no Internet, e-mail, instant messaging, [...]

I’ll be the first to admit there’s nothing quite like a presidential election year in New Hampshire, one of the benefits that comes with living and working here in the first-in-the-nation primary state.
Coordinating coverage for the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 New Hampshire primaries during my previous life here at The Telegraph ranks among the [...]

As I prepare for the start of my post-Christmas vacation – or what my wife prefers to call “working from home” – I thought this would be a good time to reflect back on 2008, my first full year as The Telegraph’s editorial page editor.
But before doing so, I wanted to express my sincere gratitude [...]