Boston's Fading Ink: A Journalist's Path Through the Good Years of Hub Newspapers

A veteran journalist’s engaging memoir recounting four decades in newspapers, from sports and politics to Hollywood and the industry's decline.Boston's Fading Ink: A Journalist's Path Through the Good Years of Hub Newspapers is the entertaining retrospective of award-winning writer-editor Dyke Hendrickson’s four-decade career in newspapers. Hendrickson’s unique journey included tenures in Hawaii, California, Mexico, New Orleans, Maine and finally, Boston. Few journalists have had such a varied and exciting career. As a sportswriter, he interviewed John McEnroe, Chris Evert, and Jimmy Connors. As a political columnist, he spent hours with Senators Ted Kennedy, George Mitchell, and Edmund Muskie. As a TV editor with Rupert Murdoch’s Boston Herald, he wrote about the greatest productions of ‘80s, the Golden Era of TV. His coverage included the making of Lonesome Dove and Warm and Remembrance; stars he profiled were Audrey Hepburn, Diane Lane, and Robert Duval, among others. In this timely memoir, Hendrickson reflects upon developing a career in newspapers when the industry began losing money. He and his wife, educator Vicki Hendrickson, live in the seaside community of Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Dyke Hendrickson is an award-winning author/journalist living on the Merrimack in Newburyport, Massachusetts. This is his sixth book. He has always lived near the water, and newspapers for which he worked include the Portland Press Herald, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and the Boston Herald. His last newspaper job was as waterfront reporter for The Daily News in Newburyport. Earlier books were Nautical Newburyport and New England Coast Guard Stories. Other publications for which he has written include USA Today, the Boston Globe, and Tennis magazine. He is currently an outreach historian for the Merrimack River Watershed Council.