Hm.

[thenightfly5150]

Kevin Paul Dupont, Hockey Hall of Fame writer for The Boston Globe, posts on a hockey forum that I frequent. Dupont posted the following as a response to a thread a young journalist started about his/her first published article:

Sincere congrats, [name removed].

Those of us in the biz, be it for a day or a lifetime, well remember our first byline. It

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[patrick_vecchio]

So what would Dupes say if a career in print is really someone's dream-someone's *calling,* to use a word that certainly is not out of place? Would he say abandon the dream, forsake the calling and go into writing copy for catalogs

[thenightfly5150]

Makes me very happy that people like you are teaching future journalists rather than Dupont.

And I agree that news delivered in electronic formats is the way of the future. About 80% of everything I do in my job is for the web, social media, or another electronic format.