Retired Publisher Writing Fewer Columns Online

Retired Omaha World-Herald Publisher Harold Andersen is writing fewer columns now that his work is published online and no longer in the newspaper he worked for 43 years.

Andersen's website, haroldandersen.com, includes only three columns since the newspaper stopped affording him space on its editorial pages on Wednesdays and Sundays. In his most recent post, Andersen writes that he will make his weekly column available on Fridays instead of Saturdays. He also takes his former employer to task for things written about the Huskers by the paper's reporters and sports columnists.

Andersen began his journalism career as a reporter for the Lincoln Star before moving to the World-Herald for a 13-year reporting stint. He also was an editor and manager before becoming publisher in 1966. He retired in 1989. Andersen also served on boards of the National Newspaper Association, the World Association of Newspapers and the Associated Press. He founded the World Press Freedom Committee.

Late in his tenure as a contributing columnist at the World-Herald, Andersen was criticized for a lack of fact-checking, having a hidden agenda at times and he frequently commented on sports, particularly Nebraska football. He was also known to frequently take shots at competing media.