By Lewis DVorkin, Forbes Staff
Will Norton and I go back 40 years. A former Chicago Tribune reporter (a job I coveted at that time), he was a graduate student at the University of Iowa moonlighting as publisher of the campus newspaper. I was an undergrad — I think a junior — who found his way into the newsroom and the excitement and camaraderie of deadline pressure. Will convinced me to write what turned out to be a 50-page plan to run The Daily Iowan. I got the editor’s job, and, as they say, the rest is history, including the 25-cent late-night beers and shop talk we shared after putting the paper to bed.