5 September 2018 — 0722 mdt

The changing of the guard at the Daily InterLake

The news that Frank Miele is retiring as editor of the Daily InterLake at the end of September was greeted with sighs of conservative sadness and whoops and hollers of liberal joy. He’ll be replaced by Matt Baldwin, a man a generation younger.

One result of the guard’s changing may be a different policy for handling controversial and mean-spirited opeds like the one written by Tim Adams, and published by the InterLake in August.

I wish Frank well in his retirement. I seldom agreed with his politics, but he was a competent journalist and editor who always gave me a fair shake with the letters and opeds that I published.

I also wish Baldwin well. He’s taking the paper’s helm at the end of the newsprint era. In another decade or so, the InterLake, and most newspapers, will be published online only. The transition will be difficult, fraught with uncertainty and layoffs.