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G.D. Gearino, a columnist and longtime N&Oer is leaving that newspaper for self-employment. Newspapering is best left for younger folks, he says, and newspapering is getting tougher.

For a long time, newspaper owners had a sweet gig: Money rolled in and their papers had a voice-of-God authority. These days, the money is harder to come by, and that authority is under siege. I still believe newspapers are important, but the job of adapting to the new information age needs to be done by people wiser than I.

So he’s freelancing, apparently, working on another novel and writing a daily online column here.