Another Baird prepares for journalism career
December 17, 2009
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Back from 1865 to 1902, my great-grandfather owned two small newspapers in southern Indiana. He raised four sons in his newspaper office and one, my grandfather, came east in 1900 to work at The World, a newspaper in New York City then owned by Joseph Pulitzer.
My father opted to work in banking, but when I showed an interest in newspapers in high school, he encouraged me.
After being editor of The Quadrangle, one of two competing student newspapers at Manhattan College in the late 1960s, I worked for a group of weekly newspapers before joining the Gannett Co. a little more than 37 years ago.
During my career here, one of our publishers was Louis A. “Chip” Weil III, whose family had sold several newspapers — including one in Indiana — to Gannett.
He used to kid me that if my family had held on to our papers, I too, could have been a wealthy publisher.
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Bob Baird
Journal News Columnist
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