In September, 2018, I served as managing editor for the first four weekly issues of The Northsider newspaper in St. Louis, Mo. When publisher Antonio French picked me up at the airport, a countdown timer in the O’Fallon Park office was already running, the digital face subtracting to a print deadline three days away. The idea was to publish the first weekly issues of the nine-year-old publication with a skeleton crew and keep going from there. I was hired on a 30-day contract to get the team’s weekly wheels rolling and that’s what I did. French later wrote, “In my opinion they were the best issues I’ve ever published of The NorthSider.”