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John Yemma might not be a household name, but he was a pioneer in journalism鈥檚 shift from print to the internet. When he returned to the Monitor as editor in 2008, after 20 years at The Boston Globe, he saw the potential for a 鈥渨eb-first鈥� news product. Soon after the Monitor鈥檚 100th anniversary, he ended daily print, started a weekly magazine, and leaned in to web journalism.

In my remembrance of John, who died June 10, I look not only at his professional accomplishments but also at him as a person 鈥� calm, smart, generous. As Monitor colleague Ken Kaplan puts it, John was a 鈥済reat human.鈥�

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