Switching the lights out...
...or the lights in the office containing the editor's current chair, anyway.
I'm going to do that at the end of today.
An era is ending. A new beginning awaits.
Quite what will happen to the Editor's Chair as a blog, we'll have to wait and see.
Perhaps the moment of physically changing chairs - a new piece of furniture that matches Fort Dunlop decor is where I'll be parking my bum from Monday - is the time to sign off this blog.
After all, the new beginning involves the restructure we have discussed, the one-newsroom approach, the editing ultimately of more than one title. And I don't fancy calling it The Editor's Chairs...!
At such times of change, perhaps it would be false anyway to continue with a blog that described a different existence.
But I've enjoyed the banter, so thanks to ALL who've contributed.
Fort Dunlop here we come!
(For those at Printing House Street this morning, this blog entry title has a great double entendre thanks to the multiple power cuts! But we have the power... the back-up generator kicked in, and today's first edition is printing as I tap.)
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Will miss the blog - have found it (and the comments that is has attracted) very entertaining!
Ending the blog?!?!?! Whatever happened two two-way interaction?!
RH: two? two? (Sorry, couldn't resist it). Seriously, two-way interaction will continue... but I reckon all good blogs must come to an end (a bit like all good columns). It doesn't mean the interaction will stop, though, just that it will take a different form. You just watch out for my seeding activity! And who knows, a new blog may well make it in time to come... But I am pretty convinced that it's fitting for The Editor's Chair to end today in Printing House Street.
Well, it was good while it lasted. No more insights into the world of Birmingham hacks. Happy bi-/tri-/multi-mediaing in your new home.
And to think I'm teaching our future hacks...
good riddance to bad rubbish
I have mostly been reading Steve Zacharanda anyway!!!
At the risk of sounding daft, don't stop the blog. It was risky, but you have brought interaction to subjects few editors ever dare to air.
Davey/RH/Alan/Corny: You may regret this, but following your posts and the comments of others in person/by phone, I'll continue in the same format for now.