EDITOR’S NOTE WORTH A FORTUNE

BY CAITLIN ROCKETT

About a decade ago, I cracked open a fortune cookie after lunch at Tsing Tao with the Boulder Weekly editorial staff.

“You have found good company — enjoy,” the cookie’s clairvoyant guts instructed.

That slip of paper moved around the office with me over the next 10 years, from intern to special editions to arts and culture to managing editor and finally to editor-inchief. The fortune is taped to my computer now as I write this, my final piece as a staff member at Boulder Weekly.

I’m not a columnist. That was never my calling as a journalist. But this moment, this transition, warrants a step outside my comfort zone to thank the many people who have helped me live a childhood dream.

Much has changed since I first stepped into Boulder Weekly’s digs on South Lashley Lane, but the company I’ve kept here has always been extraordinary. It takes a certain kind of person- ality to be a journalist: inquisitive, social, intrepid, disciplined. But it’s compassion that has always made me feel at home, no matter who shared the masthead with me. It takes bottomless humility to interview strangers about unfamiliar or difficult subjects, a deadline always looming. Your writing will be analyzed, dissected and reconstructed from its constituent parts. Mistakes require public apologies. Compensation is modest. People accuse journalists of being biased — of course we’re biased. The reporters I know want the world to be a better place, where everyone has

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