Murray Returns to Newspaper Work (1979- )

A story about being drawn back into work with newspapers...which ultimately led to his Globe Column and perhaps Murray's decision to reinvest himself in this field.

1979-80

• Not So Good Old Days (Concord Monitor) and New Hampshire Magazine
• first mention of Globe consulting ("this has been of immense stimulation for me") he worked as a consultant from Jan-June 1980, he's going there every Wednesday

1980-81

• Editors Must Find New Ways to Develop and Retain Writers (Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors)
• mention of his first book on newspaper writing, this is Writing for Your Readers, which came out in 1983.
• see p. 3-4 for SO MANY newspaper consulting gigs!!! Two years earlier, in 1978-79 there were practically no such gigs
• Lists Boston Globe AND Providence Journal as Consulting gigs, Globe started last year.
• "This work has been the single most important cause of my professional improvement as a teacher since I came to the university." (p. 4)

1981-82

• You Cheered When They Dropped the Bomb? (Concord Monitor)
• What is a Practical Education (Foster's)--see 1980s folder for a copy
• Which Books on Writing Should Be in the Newsroom?
• Newswriting as a Literary Art

1982-83

• feature piece in Globe on wind turbines
• chapters in How I Wrote the Story (1982-83)--book by Chip Scanlon
• From What to Why, The Changing Style of Newswriting

1983-84

• When Students Learn to Write, The New Hampshire Times (Feb 1984)
• Simic Profile The Boston Globe (Mar 1984)
• Life with Hannah's Rubber Tree, The Boston Globe (Apr 1984)
• Consulting gigs at several newspapers in MA and RI--he lists these under the heading of "Consulting"

1984-85

• "Newswriting." In Writing for Many Roles by Mimi Schwartz (1985).
• Memo to a New Feature Writer, Style--the American Association of Sunday and Feature Writers
• Switzerland at its Best, Boston Globe (Nov 18, 1984)
• 1-2 newspaper type gigs (lectures/talks, etc.)
• Consulting work and Writing Coach at Poynter and PROJO

*** By this point it feels like the work is not as considerable as it was in prior years

1985-86

•  Listening to Writers (book chapter for Poynter, also journal article)
• Continued consulting gigs, including one at USA Today (p. 8)
• Continued work at Poynter/PROJO

1986-87

• Year of his final letter upon retirement.

1987-88

• Twenty-six Globe columns completed

1988-89

• Twenty-six Globe columns completed
• Three articles in Food
• Two articles in At Home
• One article on the Op ed page

Discussion of Globe column going weekly as of April 1990 (1989 Annual Review)

Lots of Globe seminars in 1988-89

The thing is, the course(s) Murray taught most frequently were his news and non-fiction courses, 

621: Newswriting

622: Advanced Newswriting

703/803: Advanced Nonfiction

704/804: Advanced Nonfiction

Notable:

1. Sustained Consulting Gigs with newspapers (Globe and PROJO)
2. Speaking gigs with newspapers (all around country)
3. First book about journalism (Writing for Your Readers, 1982)
4. Publication in journalism journal (From What to Why: The Changing Style of Newswriting (Newspaper Writing as Art)--fall

Perhaps this section is the time to mention that he was recruited in 1964 to be the editor of the Boston Herald and turned it down...