How to measure success

When Jill, the woman who cleans the building, found out I was leaving the Daily Tribune, she first asked me to get the stacks of newspapers out from under my desk.

I know she will miss me, but I did accumulate a lot of papers in the almost three years I was there. Everyday I would set aside the newspaper to reference when someone would call about a birth announcement or a reader would be looking for, say, when the last Beer Man column ran. 

After I had pulled the papers out and stacked them beside the recycling bin, it gave me reason for reflection. I had never seen my collection of work neatly stacked waiting for disposal.

Each paper represented that day's achievement, but where I'm going will  have a different measurement of success.

Community News 2.0 is tasked with increasing the involvement in democracy, creating connections with disenfranchised citizens and other things not easily stacked.