Some fathers are journalists (even Pulitzer Prize winners); some have children who are journalists, started down the path by dads who love the news and infect their kids with the same disease, ("There is no newsprint patch I can wear to wean me," says one author in this collection of Father's Day pieces). Some of us know our fathers best by reading the paper he left behind and some by discovering other artifacts. Whoever your father, we hope you'll find something of him and of yourself in these essays by Roy Peter Clark, Anne Conneen, Karen F. Brown Dunlap, Rob King, Christopher Scanlan, and Richard H. Weiss.

King Among Dads and Dad of Kings By Rob King, Deputy Managing Editor, Visuals & Sports, Philadelphia Inquirer "My father, Colbert I. King, is both the Post's deputy editorial page editor and the recipient of this year's Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. If you ask him about his journalistic career, he's likely to say that I am his mentor. This is only partially true." >>Read more

Dad's Write Stuff By Richard H. Weiss, Deputy Metro Editor / Writing Coach, St. Louis Post-Dispatch "In my 47th year, it occurred to me -- as it does to many people at midlife -- that I ought to reinvent myself ... So I paid a call on a woman who calls herself the Job Doctor ... She listened to me caterwaul about my gloomy prospects: underpaid, unappreciated, largely unrecognized. " >>Read more

The Daily Dipper By Anne Conneen, Design Editor & Adjunct Faculty, Poynter Institute "Both my parents are dead, so I'm grateful my father saved many items, such as this WWII Army-Air Force base newsletter. It announces the marriage of my mother and father. It is yellowed and stained, much like many of my memories are. " >>Read more

Reading the Paper By Christopher Scanlan, Senior Faculty - Writing, Poynter Institute "Five days before my father died, the Greenwich High School chorus performed at a convention of music educators in Atlantic City ... Two days before my father died, Rosemary Clooney gave birth to a baby boy in Santa Monica, California ... The day before my father died, two armed convicts, Robert Rivera and Raymond Farra, released 19 hostages they had threatened to kill." >>Read more

To a Son, Dad's Gift was News By Roy Peter Clark, Senior Scholar and Vice President, Poynter Institute "My father died last month at the age of 86, and among his legacies to his three sons is a love of news. He spent most of his adult life in government service, first as an infantry officer and then as an inspector in the U.S. Customs Service. A double honor guard and a Catholic funeral sent Dad off in a blaze of glory. His obituary appeared in Newsday, the well-respected Long Island, N.Y., tabloid." >>Read more

Etched in Stone By Karen F. Brown Dunlap, Dean of the Faculty and President-Designate, Poynter Institute "My father's name is etched in stone in Nashville. It's set in the cornerstone of Roger Heights Baptist Church. I barely remember a frame church, back in the late 1950s, surrendering to age, the elements and encroaching birds. My father, a young minister, led the congregation in building a brick edifice that stands today." >>Read more