'Don't mourn the passing of the golden age of sportswriting, just be thankful it happened'

GUEST POST: In 1988, Paul Lewis' Olympics coverage won him the highest honour in NZ journalism - 28 years later the papers didn't send any reporters to the Games.

I met Paul Lewis in 2004 when, after months of anxiety-inducing flip-flopping, I made the call to join the sports department of the start-up Herald on Sunday. Those first few months were exhilarating and worrying all at once as the newspaper fought antipathy from within the New Zealand Herald building as much as it did from the existing Sundays, the Fai…