One hell of a good journalist, publisher, and enviromental activist -- via High County News. Ed founded what eventually became the High Country News. A New Yorker, he moved to Paonia Colorado in 1974 and started the North Fork Times. I would see him on the dusty main street of town when I went in to work on-air at KVNF, doing his thing as well. In those days, Paonia was the ass-end of nowhere.
He showed that it doesn't matter where you start something worthwhile, if you are smart and diligent. Th High Country Times has produced a ton of good journalism on the environment, the West, and the political processes that shape and misshape it, for decades -- news we would not otherwise have possession of. Advocacy journalism is devilishly tricky to do well; Ed showed how to do it without sacrificing your credibility.
He showed that it doesn't matter where you start something worthwhile, if you are smart and diligent. Th High Country Times has produced a ton of good journalism on the environment, the West, and the political processes that shape and misshape it, for decades -- news we would not otherwise have possession of. Advocacy journalism is devilishly tricky to do well; Ed showed how to do it without sacrificing your credibility.