Adios, Tina Kelley

by: JRB

Fri Dec 11, 2009 at 05:58:10 PM EST

Tina Kelley, who corresponded from many-a-Jersey dateline in The New York Times, has taken a buyout. She wrote a wonderful poem about reporting here. Go have a read.

It is magic, writing news. We have an honored front row seat in life,
the chance to walk through the bat cave for six hours seeing the last
ceilingsful of bats, mysteriously dying. It is a privilege to listen