Editor Punctuates Q&A With Tip to Don Forst

Detroit News assistant managing editor Walter Middlebrook chats with his Alma Mater.

The latest alumnus to participate in Boston University’s career-advice Q&A series “Jump-Start Your Job Search” is Detroit News assistant managing editor Walter Middlebrook. He graduated from BU in 1976.

Middlebrook says that although his father, who raised him in the Deep South during the days of segregation, was not an educated man, dad taught him the “value of work, ethics and self-esteem.” That steerage set him on a steady path through journalism:

“It was that foundation that led me to the journalists who would help me find my way through the pitfalls of this industry.

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