TIM COHEN: A trip down memory lane as I say farewell
Through the changes and the editorships, it was an honour to work on Business Day
This is my last column in this space, so I beg your indulgence if I pay my dues and reminisce a bit. Discounting a short period when I worked as a freelancer, partly for Business Day but for other publications too, I’m one of the longest-serving employees of the paper. Of my 34 years in journalism, I have spent 27 or so at Business Day, and consequently I have seen six editors and acting editors come and go, including myself! There are one or two others who have worked on the paper longer, but we are now a small group and I therefore have something of a unique view of the paper’s trajectory. I was hired by Ken Owen, a fearsome man with a fearsome intellect. I actually interviewed him as a writer for the Wits campus newspaper Wits Student and wrote a slightly sour piece about it. The Business Day office then was in the glass-diamond building in Diagonal Street, which were very modern offices at the time. They had a lift that announced which floor you had arrived at in slightly creepy...
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