Mississippi Biz Journal senior reporter set to retire

Wally Northway, the senior reporter at the Mississippi Business Journal, is retiring at the end of the month after being at the paper since 1997.

Ted Carter of the Journal writes, “A few thousand stories later, the soon-to-retire business journalist can lay claim to a career well spent. ‘I always felt like it was important work,’ Northway said during a recent break from compiling the newspaper’s early morning web postings and reporting on the activities of some of Mississippi’s most interesting entrepreneurs and business professionals.

“‘We’re the only statewide paper dedicated to business in Mississippi,’ he said of the weekly publication that has been the state’s premier source of  business news for 35 years.

“‘I don’t regret a minute of it. … It’s been a great ride. I’ll tell you that,’ said Northway, who also has devoted a lifetime to playing guitar and writing songs, mostly ‘love ballads.’

“Growing up in the Delta you pretty much have to like music,” said the 1978 Greenville High School graduate.”

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