He was editor of the Reno Evening Gazette in the 1970s, when Reno was a two-newspaper town. Lerude helped the Reno Evening Gazette and the Nevada State Journal merge to become the Reno Gazette-Journal. It is a much different world nowadays with only one newspaper in town, he said. There was some vivaciousness. We were extremely competitive.
Life is much quieter in academia than in the boiling world of the newsroom.
The world inside the newsroom also has changed since he was an editor almost 20 years ago. We didn't use computers. Everything has changed. Everything was much more intuitive then than today. Editors used to make more solitary decisions.