Vlad Jecan

Hold the Front Page wrote:

Mark Gale had been a journalist on the Haywards Heath-based Mid Sussex Times for no fewer than 60 years.

He loved his job as the paper’s music and theatre critic so much he continued to work for nothing following his retirement, coming into the office for two days a week.

“His writing should have earned him a job on the nationals but he was not ambitious and loved his job here so much he never moved on,” said a colleague.

60 years of writing for a single newspaper, isn’t it amazing? This probably takes a lot of commitment, loyalty and modesty. It is also shocking because most journalists migrate from a paper to another due to various reasons or write for multiple publications in the same time.