I wish I’d kept a journal of all the lessons I learned over my years working with Rich Mauer, the longtime Anchorage Daily News reporter and editor.
Rich died at 76 this past week. For much of the time I knew him, though, it seemed like he could outlast all of us.
As my editor at the Daily News in his mid-60s, Rich brought an energy to his job, and to his life, that many people half his age would covet. He played racketball compulsively, was a utility player for a local synagogue’s softball team, the 10 Plagues, and functioned on an iPhone and Mac as well as any digital native — except for his annoying insistence on editing with Apple’s antiquated Pages app…