A fond farewell from Keith J. Kelly as Media Ink comes to an end

This is my farewell column for Media Ink, which is going out of publication with my retirement.

I know some of you were expecting a state of the industry address, but we always covered media as a contact sport, with the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. So I’d prefer to give a snapshot of the most memorable behind-the-scenes moments and the larger-than-life characters I experienced in my 23 years writing the column.