Additional Content To My Feature Article: Doug Moe

Garth Beyer

If you haven’t read the feature article I wrote of Doug Moe, just click his name.

The content below is additional information, sidebars, for the article. Enjoy.

David Callender

Doug is a Madison generalist, well versed, and very curious about the world around him. He’s a great listener and a mold of the great urban newspaper columnist. Moe never pulled any punches; he really explored and explained the issues of his profiles. Moe is the last of a breed of people who wanted to be newspaper writers. He grew up in Madison and experienced its growth over the years firsthand and there is no substitute for firsthand experience and knowledge. Moe had 30+ years growing up and writing about the community. His sort of writing can only come from long-term investment.

Jeff Scott Olson

Moe doesn’t go out of his way to be unkind. He’s a great sportsman, competitive, but joyful. Although,  at times he can get glum about his performance. […] Moe, in his writing, preserves characters. He shares stories that are larger than life. The important parts of Madison won’t go away and that’s because of Doug Moe.

Doug Moe

So far as choosing the columns to write, I guess the overriding concern is: Will this be interesting to the readers? There really is no other consideration. Now, I also try hard to have a good mix of column subjects. I don’t want to write too often about books, or golf, or Madison history, or only men, or only women — you get the idea. I want people to not know what to expect when they look for my column. That is a goal. Then, how to write them for me gets down to a question of tone. What’s the appropriate tone? Light? Serious? A little of both? […] My dad was actually in broadcast management. He was general manager of Channel 27 here in Madison. I suppose growing up in a media family might have influenced my own decision to go into the media. The main thing was, writing was what I was good at. I wasn’t going to be a scientist or engineer.

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