This really is the last word from me

EVEN in an age when we read much of our news on a screen, the cliché that today’s news is tomorrow’s ‘chip wrapping’ applies.

It also applies to working in the media. Gigs come and go, and most people assume there’s no such thing as a job for life. This is to be my last column.

I wish it were otherwise, though I can’t complain: I’m lucky to have a day job with Newstalk. Businesses can’t operate on good will. Nonetheless, I was stunned and slightly choked when I counted back how long I have been writing this column. I started in 1999. Fourteen years. I have children who are younger.