Bits and Pieces: Print Requiem For Mark Smith

Mark had a competitive side that he almost never flashed, with one memorable exception. I am in charge of the "PI Weekly" e-newsletter, while he edited the daily edition. Our views on what constituted industry news sometimes clashed. I have a newspaper background, so I never hesitated to run items about crime, fires, deaths—briefs that would typically appear in your hometown paper, not a B2B trade magazine. He wanted to run a publicly-held printer's or press manufacturer's quarterly reports. He despised anything that smacked of salacious news.