Where are they now?Don Mildenhall

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by HoldtheFrontPage Staff Published 25 Jun 2007

HoldTheFrontPage is trying to track down a few of the big-hitters you might remember from your days as a trainee – to see how they’re faring away from their former life of headlines and deadlines.

Don Mildenhall is best known as a former editor of the Western Gazette, the newspaper he spent his entire working career with.

He is also a former president of the Guild of British Newspaper Editors and has received an MBE for his services to journalism.

Since 1991 he has been enjoying an ‘active retirement’, becoming involved in local government and also helping to set up newspapers in third world countries and poorer parts of Europe.
To read more, click here.

We have previously focused on Gerry Kreibich, best known as the affable, word-loving journalism lecturer at Stradbroke College. With a sharp eye for accuracy and a good nose for a story, he turned hundreds of green, wannabe reporters into successful journalists.

Click here to find out what he’s up to these days.

We spoke to Arnold Hadwin, former group editor of the Lincolnshire Standard Group and editor of the T&A, who is now passing on his journalism skills overseas.
His story can be found here.

We have also caught up with Richmond/ Stradbroke College journalism lecturer Ron Eyley, now busy in the world of PR.
Find out more here.

Media consultant Ranald Allan, editor of the Evening Gazette (1991-9), also came under the spotlight. Read more here.

Is your old boss making good use of the benefit of a life in the media? Or is there someone else who has made a new life who could be featured here?
E-mail us now and we’ll do the rest.

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