In the early 1990s, I was up in Austin where I was working at the time, and I happened to pick up the Wall Street Journal. It had the old-school layout back then. The only one like it in America at the time. Every story on the front page was laid out in one long vertical column with a one-column headline. Only exception was a two-column piece – What’s News?My favorite part of the front page was what was called the middle column. That column was full of colorful stories, not your standard news fare, but more like a profile ...