Editor & Publisher | Cleveland Plain DealerPlain Dealer editor
Doug Clifton says his June 1
retirement doesn't signify a weariness with the newspaper business. "If I were ten years younger, I would say this is just an extraordinary moment in the development of our business that requires creativity, and imagination, and new approaches to doing things," the 63-year-old newsman tells
Mark Fitzgerald. The Plain Dealer has "younger people who are fired up, and it's their time to step up and do what I, on my best day, could probably only wish to do."