Dallas Morning News editor: ‘We are all salespeople now’

Late last year, Mike Wilson became the first person in 35 years from outside the offices of The Dallas Morning News to be named the paper's top editor. The man he replaced, Bob Mong, joined the News in 1979, held the top job since 2001, and led his newsroom to nine Pulitzer Prizes. On Feb. 16, Mong became editor emeritus and moved to the editorial offices upstairs from the newsroom to make way for Wilson, 54, who was quietly recruited over the final four months of 2014. Mong retired from the paper in May.  Read more from Columbia Journalism Review.

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