In his Lexington apartment, Walter Tunis faces a wall lined with hundreds of records.
From the floor to the ceiling, the records represent 46 years of his work as the Contributing Music Critic for the Lexington Herald Leader, which began in 1980 and abruptly ended last April.
Tunis explains what happened. “McClatchy Media, which owns the Herald Leader, and a number of other newspapers around the country, decided to discontinue the use of freelance reporters, of which I am one. So that ended everything there. This was not a decision of the Herald Leader; it was a decision of McClatchy, and it affected all their newspapers.”…